Systems and methods for selecting advertisements for display over a communications network
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1. A system for selecting and displaying advertisements over a communications network, the system comprising:
- a database configured to store a plurality of advertisements; and
an advertisement selection application configured to;
receive a request for advertising from a user computer, wherein the request is generated automatically by the user computer in accordance with instructions provided to the user computer by a content publisher upon the user computer accessing the content publisher'"'"'s page, and wherein the request further comprises one or more advertisement selection criteria; and
in response to the request, select at least one advertisement from the database for display within the page based at least in part on the one or more advertisement selection criteria associated with the request and at least in part on additional criteria that include bid criteria,wherein;
at least one of the plurality of advertisements is a graphic corresponding to a single frame of video from a video advertisement; and
in response to a selection of the graphic by a user of the user computer, the advertisement selection application is further configured to receive a request from the user computer for the video advertisement corresponding to the graphic.
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Abstract
Systems and methods are provided for selecting advertisements for display over a communications network and, more particularly, to systems and methods for selecting video advertisements for display within internet web pages based on relevance, bid price, past performance, or a combination thereof.
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1. A system for selecting and displaying advertisements over a communications network, the system comprising:
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a database configured to store a plurality of advertisements; and an advertisement selection application configured to; receive a request for advertising from a user computer, wherein the request is generated automatically by the user computer in accordance with instructions provided to the user computer by a content publisher upon the user computer accessing the content publisher'"'"'s page, and wherein the request further comprises one or more advertisement selection criteria; and in response to the request, select at least one advertisement from the database for display within the page based at least in part on the one or more advertisement selection criteria associated with the request and at least in part on additional criteria that include bid criteria, wherein; at least one of the plurality of advertisements is a graphic corresponding to a single frame of video from a video advertisement; and in response to a selection of the graphic by a user of the user computer, the advertisement selection application is further configured to receive a request from the user computer for the video advertisement corresponding to the graphic. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 15, 16, 17, 18)
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13. A method for selecting and displaying advertisements within a page, the method comprising:
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storing a plurality of advertisements in a database; receiving, at an advertisement selection system, a request for at least one of said advertisements from a user computer; and in response to the request, and using the advertisement selection system, selecting at least one advertisement from of the plurality of stored advertisements for display within the page, wherein the selecting is based at least in part on past performance of an advertisement on the page and at least in part on a bid associated with at least one of the plurality of stored advertisements, wherein; at least one of the plurality of advertisements is a graphic corresponding to a single frame of video from a video advertisement; and in response to a selection of the graphic by a user of the user computer, the method further comprises receiving, at the advertisement selection system, a request from the user computer for the video advertisement corresponding the graphic.
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14. A system for selecting and displaying advertisements within a page, the system comprising:
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means for storing a plurality of advertisements; means for receiving a request for an advertisement from a user computer, wherein the request is generated automatically by the user computer in accordance with instructions provided to the user computer by a content publisher upon the user computer accessing a page provided by the content publisher, and wherein the instructions include one or more advertisement selection criteria; and means for selecting, in response to the request, at least one advertisement from the stored advertisements for display within the page based at least in part on the one or more advertisement selection criteria associated with the request and at least in part on additional criteria that includes bid criteria, wherein; at least one of the plurality of advertisements is a graphic corresponding to a single frame of video from a video advertisement; and in response to a selection of the graphic by a user of the user computer, the system further comprises means for receiving a request from the user computer for the video advertisement corresponding to the graphic.
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19. A system for selecting and displaying advertisements over a communications network, the system comprising:
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a database configured to store a plurality of advertisements and advertiser bid data associated with the plurality of advertisements; and an advertisement selection application configured to; receive a request for advertising from a user computer, wherein the request is generated by the user computer in accordance with instructions provided to the user computer by a content publisher upon the user computer accessing the content publisher'"'"'s page, and wherein the request further comprises one or more advertisement selection criteria; and select at least one advertisement from the database, wherein the at least one advertisement that is selected corresponds to at least one advertisement selection criterion and is associated with a plurality of advertiser bids, wherein; at least one of the plurality of advertisements is a graphic corresponding to a single frame of video from a video advertisement; and in response to a selection of the graphic by a user of the user computer, the advertisement selection application is further configured to receive a request from the user computer for the video advertisement corresponding to the graphic. - View Dependent Claims (20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26)
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