Selecting and/or scoring content-relevant advertisements
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1. A computer-implemented method comprising:
- a) receiving, using a computer system including at least one computer, advertisement search criteria about a document;
b) assigning a criteria weight to each advertisement search criterion based on relevancy of the advertisement search criterion to the document;
c) selecting advertisements corresponding to the advertisement search criteria;
d) associating each selected advertisement with the criteria weight of the corresponding advertisement search criterion for that selected advertisement;
e) determining, using the computer system, a score for each of the selected advertisements based on a product of a price parameter associated with the advertisement and the criteria weight associated with the advertisement, each determined score representing a value associated with a placement order of the selected advertisements;
f) identifying available spaces on the document based on information from a source, the information indicating at least one certain space of the available spaces on the document for placing an advertisement, wherein the at least one certain space is preferred over other ones of the available spaces on the document; and
g) controlling, using the computer system, placement of at least some of the selected advertisements on the document by arbitrating among the selected advertisements for the available spaces on the document based on the determined scores.
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Abstract
Ads eligible to be served with a document (for example, because they are relevant to the document) may each be scored using a price parameter associated with the ad and an indication of relevancy of the ad to the document. The indication of relevancy of the ad to the document may be based on an ordinal ranking of a relevancy criteria of the document used to select the ad, and/or a value of a relevancy criteria of the document used to select the ad. The eligible ads may be determined by obtaining relevancy criteria for the document and selecting ads using at least some of the obtained relevancy criteria. The ads may be selected, and perhaps filtered, in a distributed manner.
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1. A computer-implemented method comprising:
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a) receiving, using a computer system including at least one computer, advertisement search criteria about a document; b) assigning a criteria weight to each advertisement search criterion based on relevancy of the advertisement search criterion to the document; c) selecting advertisements corresponding to the advertisement search criteria; d) associating each selected advertisement with the criteria weight of the corresponding advertisement search criterion for that selected advertisement; e) determining, using the computer system, a score for each of the selected advertisements based on a product of a price parameter associated with the advertisement and the criteria weight associated with the advertisement, each determined score representing a value associated with a placement order of the selected advertisements; f) identifying available spaces on the document based on information from a source, the information indicating at least one certain space of the available spaces on the document for placing an advertisement, wherein the at least one certain space is preferred over other ones of the available spaces on the document; and g) controlling, using the computer system, placement of at least some of the selected advertisements on the document by arbitrating among the selected advertisements for the available spaces on the document based on the determined scores. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 17, 20, 21)
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16. Apparatus comprising:
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a) at least one processor; and b) at least one storage device storing processor executable instructions which, when executed by the at least one processor, perform a method including; i) receiving advertisement search criteria about a document; ii) assigning a criteria weight to each advertisement search criterion based on relevancy of the advertisement search criterion to the document; iii) selecting advertisements corresponding to the advertisement search criteria; iv) associating each selected advertisement with the criteria weight of the corresponding advertisement search criterion for that selected advertisement; v) determining a score for each of the selected advertisements based on a product of a price parameter associated with the advertisement and the criteria weight associated with the advertisement, each determined score representing a value associated with a placement order of the selected advertisements; vi) identifying available spaces on the document based on information from a source, the information indicating at least one certain space of the available spaces on the document for placing an advertisement, wherein the at least one certain space is preferred over other ones of the available spaces on the document; and vii) controlling placement of at least some of the selected advertisements on the document by arbitrating among the selected advertisements for the available spaces on the document based on the determined scores.
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18. A computer-implemented method comprising:
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a) receiving, using a computer system including at least one computer, advertisement search criteria about a document; b) assigning a criteria weight to each advertisement search criterion based on relevancy of the advertisement search criterion to the document; c) selecting advertisements corresponding to the advertisement search criteria; d) associating each selected advertisement with the criteria weight of the corresponding advertisement search criterion for that selected advertisement; e) determining, using the computer system, a score for each of the selected advertisements based on a product of a price parameter associated with the advertisement, a performance parameter associated with the advertisement, and the criteria weight associated with the advertisement, each determined score representing a value associated with a placement order of the selected advertisements; f) identifying available spaces on the document based on information from a source, the information indicating at least one certain space of the available spaces on the document for placing an advertisement, wherein the at least one certain space is preferred over other ones of the available spaces on the document; and g) controlling, using the computer system, placement of at least some of the selected advertisements on the document by arbitrating among the selected advertisements for the available spaces on the document based on the determined scores.
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19. A tangible, non-transitory computer readable medium storing processor executable instructions, which, when executed by at least one processor, cause the at least one processor to perform a method including:
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i) receiving advertisement search criteria about a document; ii) assigning a criteria weight to each advertisement search criterion based on relevancy of the advertisement search criterion to the document; iii) selecting advertisements corresponding to the advertisement search criteria; iv) associating each selected advertisement with the criteria weight of the corresponding advertisement search criterion for that selected advertisement; v) determining a score for each of the selected advertisements based on a product of a price parameter associated with the advertisement and the criteria weight associated with the advertisement, each determined score representing a value associated with a placement order of the selected advertisements; vi) identifying available spaces on the document based on information from a source, the information indicating at least one certain space of the available spaces on the document for placing an advertisement, wherein the at least one certain space is preferred over other ones of the available spaces on the document; and vii) controlling placement of at least some of the selected advertisements on the document by arbitrating among the selected advertisements for the available spaces on the document based on the determined scores.
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