Publisher side file support for expandable content items

• US 9,047,627 B1
• Filed: 02/19/2014
• Issued: 06/02/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 05/08/2012
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Google LLC (Alphabet Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Google Inc. (Alphabet Inc.)
• Inventors: Kobyakov, Pavel, Shubina, Ksenia
• Primary Examiner(s): Weiss, John G
• Assistant Examiner(s): Anderson, Scott C
• Application Number:
  US14/183,713
• Time in Patent Office: 468 Days
• Field of Search: 705/14.55, 705/14.71
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0241 Advertisements
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0251 Targeted advertisements
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0257 User requested
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0275 Auctions
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0277 Online advertisement

Abstract

This specification describes methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer-readable storage device, for precluding the serving of expandable content items from vendors for publisher hosts that do not support the particular vendors.

Claims

1. A computer-implemented method, comprising:

receiving, at an advertising exchange, advertisement requests for publisher hosts from user devices, each request specifying a publisher host, and for each request, wherein each advertisement served through an advertising exchange in response to the requests requires at the publisher host a publisher side file of a vendor for the advertisement, the publisher side file for the vendor being a file that facilitates processing of an expandable advertisement served by the vendor in a resource served by the publisher host, and wherein each publisher side file for a vendor corresponds to only the expandable content items the vendor serves;

accessing, by the advertising exchange, an association of publisher hosts and vendors that specifies, for each publisher host, vendors for which the publisher host provides publisher side files;

determining, by the advertising exchange, a set of vendors for the publisher host, each of the vendors being a vendor for which the publisher host provides a publisher side file for the vendor, and wherein the set of vendors excludes vendors for which the publisher does not provide a publisher side file;

enabling, by the advertising exchange, expandable advertisements served only by the set of vendors to participate in the advertisement selection process to select an advertisement to fulfill the request;

for each advertisement request;

receiving data indicating a selected expandable advertisement selected by the advertisement selection process; and

providing response data in response to the advertisement request that causes the selected expandable advertisement to be served to the user device.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the advertisement selection process is an advertisement auction.

3. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

receiving, for each publisher host in the association of publisher hosts;

publisher support data specifying vendors for which the publisher host provides publisher side files; and

storing, in the association of publisher hosts and vendors, data specifying the vendors for which the publisher host provides publisher side files.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein the user process is an iFrame process that renders content items in an iFrame when rendering a resource served by a publisher host.

5. A system, comprising:

a data processing apparatus; and

a computer memory apparatus in data communication with the data processing apparatus and storing instructions executable by the data processing apparatus and that upon such execution cause the data processing apparatus to perform operations comprising;

receiving advertisement requests for publisher hosts from user devices, each request specifying a publisher host, and for each request, wherein each advertisement served through an advertising exchange in response to the requests requires at the publisher host a publisher side file of a vendor for the advertisement, the publisher side file for the vendor being a file that facilitates processing of an expandable advertisement served by the vendor in a resource served by the publisher host, and wherein each publisher side file for a vendor corresponds to only the expandable content items the vendor serves;

accessing an association of publisher hosts and vendors that specifies, for each publisher host, vendors for which the publisher host provides publisher side files;

determining, by the advertising exchange, a set of vendors for the publisher host, each of the vendors being a vendor for which the publisher host provides a publisher side file for the vendor, and wherein the set of vendors excludes vendors for which the publisher does not provide a publisher side file;

enabling expandable advertisements served only by the set of vendors to participate in the advertisement selection process to select an advertisement to fulfill the request;

for each advertisement request;

receiving data indicating a selected expandable advertisement selected by the advertisement selection process; and

providing response data in response to the advertisement request that causes the selected expandable advertisement to be served to the user device.

6. The system of claim 5, wherein the advertisement selection process is an advertisement auction.

7. The system of claim 6, the operations further comprising:

receiving, for each publisher host in the association of publisher hosts;

publisher support data specifying vendors for which the publisher host provides publisher side files; and

storing, in the association of publisher hosts and vendors, data specifying the vendors for which the publisher host provides publisher side files.

8. The system of claim 6, wherein the user process is an iFrame process that renders content items in an iFrame when rendering a resource served by a publisher host.

9. A computer memory apparatus storing instructions executable by a data processing apparatus and that upon such execution cause the data processing apparatus to perform operations comprising:

receiving advertisement requests for publisher hosts from user devices, each request specifying a publisher host, and for each request, wherein each advertisement served through an advertising exchange in response to the requests requires at the publisher host a publisher side file of a vendor for the advertisement, the publisher side file for the vendor being a file that facilitates processing of an expandable advertisement served by the vendor in a resource served by the publisher host, and wherein each publisher side file for a vendor corresponds to only the expandable content items the vendor serves;

accessing an association of publisher hosts and vendors that specifies, for each publisher host, vendors for which the publisher host provides publisher side files;

determining, by the advertising exchange, a set of vendors for the publisher host, each of the vendors being a vendor for which the publisher host provides a publisher side file for the vendor, and wherein the set of vendors excludes vendors for which the publisher does not provide a publisher side file;

enabling expandable advertisements served only by the set of vendors to participate in the advertisement selection process to select an advertisement to fulfill the request;

for each advertisement request;

receiving data indicating a selected expandable advertisement selected by the advertisement selection process; and

providing response data in response to the advertisement request that causes the selected expandable advertisement to be served to the user device.

10. The computer memory apparatus of claim 9, wherein the advertisement selection process is an advertisement auction.

11. The computer memory apparatus of claim 10, the operations further comprising:

receiving, for each publisher host in the association of publisher hosts;

publisher support data specifying vendors for which the publisher host provides publisher side files; and

storing, in the association of publisher hosts and vendors, data specifying the vendors for which the publisher host provides publisher side files.

12. The computer memory apparatus of claim 10, wherein the user process is an iFrame process that renders content items in an iFrame when rendering a resource served by a publisher host.