Expenditures based on ad impressions

• US 10,043,196 B2
• Filed: 06/19/2017
• Issued: 08/07/2018
• Est. Priority Date: 09/26/2011
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: American Express Travel Related Services Company, Inc. (American Express Company)
• Original Assignee: American Express Travel Related Services Company, Inc. (American Express Company)
• Inventors: Durvasula, Sastry VSM, Gebb, Lucas Saunders, Govani, Rachna R., Koul, Priyadarshini, Peltier, Sarah Claire, Schultz, Stephanie, Tiku, Sripriya V.
• Primary Examiner(s): Brown, Luis A
• Application Number:
  US15/626,598
• Publication Number:
  US 20170286996A1
• Time in Patent Office: 414 Days
• Field of Search: 705 141, 705 144, 705 1441, 705 1442, 705 1445, 705 1473, 705 26, 705 27, 707102, 707501, 709217
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0241 Advertisements
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0242 Determining effectiveness of advertisements
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0243 Comparative campaigns
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0246 Traffic

Abstract

The present disclosure includes a system, method, and article of manufacture for targeting ad impressions. A list of customer records may be transmitted to a service provider system that identifies a matched customer and installs a cookie on a web client associated with the matched customer. The system may further receive a campaign request from a merchant and transmit the campaign request to the service provider system which may add a flag to the cookie based on the campaign request as well as instruct a media buyer system to bid on an ad impression for the matched customer based on the flag. The system may further receive an expenditure associated with the matched customer who received the ad impression and compare the expenditure to an expenditure associated with a customer who did not receive targeted ad impression but fits parameters associated with the campaign request.

Claims

1. A method comprising:

determining, by a computer-based system, a first group of customers for an ad impression;

selecting, by the computer-based system and based on the determining, a second group of customers based on look alike modeling of the first group of customers,

wherein a first customer is part of the second group of customers;

creating, by the computer-based system, a tag that includes a campaign request by a merchant, wherein the campaign request indicates the ad impression for the first customer based on the tag;

further creating, by the computer-based system, the tag with additional instructions that cause, upon a web client navigating to a website, a cookie to be transmitted from the web client to the media buyer system to indicate that the first customer is online such that the media buyer system purchases the ad impression that is sent to the first customer;

tagging, by the computer-based system, the cookie with the tag that includes the campaign request for the first customer;

anonymizing, by the computer-based system, the cookie to create an anonymized cookie by stripping the personal information (PII) that is associated with a first customer;

installing, by the computer-based system, the anonymized cookie on the web client associated with the first customer;

receiving, by the computer-based system, data from the anonymized cookie;

modifying, by the computer-based system, the tag associated with the cookie to at least one of;

associate or disassociate the first customer with at least one of;

a category or type of the ad impression;

selecting, by the computer-based system, the ad impression from the at least one of;

the category or the type of the ad impression;

transmitting, by the computer-based system, the ad impression to the web client associated with the first customer;

identifying, by the computer-based system, a first expenditure associated with the first customer that received the ad impression;

comparing, by the computer-based system, the first expenditure to a second expenditure associated with a second customer that did not receive the ad impression based on the campaign request but fits parameters associated with the campaign request; and

generating, by the computer-based system, a report showing the results of the comparing.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the computer-based system includes at least one of the service provider system or the transaction account issuer system.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein the first customer is part of an anonymized list of customers created based on a type of customer to be targeted by the merchant as part of the campaign request.

4. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

identifying the first customer by analyzing the PII from a list of customer records,

wherein the PII from a transaction account issuer system satisfies the PII stored by the service provider system.

5. The method of claim 1, further comprising receiving the campaign request from the merchant, wherein the campaign request includes the type of customer to be targeted.

6. The method of claim 1, further comprising determining, by the computer-based system, a value of the ad impression based on the comparing.

7. The method of claim 1, wherein the campaign request is associated with a product identifier.

8. The method of claim 1, further comprising permitting, by the computer-based system and via the web client, the first customer to select the type of the ad impression in which the first customer is interested.

9. The method of claim 1, wherein the report includes a click through associated with the first customer that received the ad impression.

10. The method of claim 1, wherein the cookie is removed from a browser of the first customer in response to a selection by the first customer of the type of the ad impression in which the first customer is not interested.

11. The method of claim 1, wherein the tags are based on at least one of transaction history or attribute information that fits within parameters associated with the campaign request.

12. The method of claim 1, further comprising filtering, by the computer-based system, the anonymized list of customer records based on at least one of the product identifier, the type of customer, transaction history or attribute information that fits within parameters associated with the campaign request.

13. A system comprising:

a processor;

a tangible, non-transitory memory configured to communicate with the processor,

the tangible, non-transitory memory having instructions stored thereon that, in response to execution by the processor, cause the processor to perform operations comprising;

determining, by the processor, a first group of customers for an ad impression;

selecting, by the processor and based on the determining, a second group of customers based on look alike modeling of the first group of customers,

wherein a first customer is part of the second group of customers;

creating, by a processor, a tag that includes a campaign request by a merchant, wherein the campaign request indicates the ad impression for the first customer based on the tag;

further creating, by the processor, the tag with additional instructions that cause, upon a web client navigating to a website, a cookie to be transmitted from the web client to the media buyer system to indicate that the first customer is online such that the media buyer system purchases the ad impression that is sent to the first customer;

tagging, by the processor, the cookie with the tag that includes the campaign request for the first customer;

anonymizing, by the processor, the cookie to create an anonymized cookie by stripping the personal information (PII) that is associated with a first customer;

installing, by the processor, the anonymized cookie on the web client associated with the first customer;

receiving, by the processor, data from the anonymized cookie;

modifying, by the processor, the tag associated with the cookie to at least one of;

associate or disassociate the first customer with at least one of;

a category or type of the ad impression;

selecting, by the processor, the ad impression from the at least one of;

the category or the type of the ad impression;

transmitting, by the processor, the ad impression to the web client associated with the first customer;

identifying, by the processor, a first expenditure associated with the first customer that received the ad impression;

comparing, by the processor, the first expenditure to a second expenditure associated with a second customer that did not receive the ad impression based on the campaign request but fits parameters associated with the campaign request; and

generating, by the processor, a report showing the results of the comparing.

14. The system of claim 13, wherein processor is part of at least one of the service provider system or the transaction account issuer system.

15. The system of claim 13, wherein the first customer is part of an anonymized list of customers created based on a type of customer to be targeted by the merchant as part of the campaign request.

16. The system of claim 13, further comprising modifying, by the processor, the tag associated with the cookie to at least one of:

associate or disassociate the first customer with at least one of;

a category or type of the ad impression.

17. The system of claim 13, further comprising:

identifying the first customer by analyzing the PII from a list of customer records, wherein the PII from a transaction account issuer system satisfies the PII stored by the service provider system.

18. An article of manufacture including a non-transitory, tangible computer readable storage medium having instructions stored thereon that, in response to execution by a computer-based system, cause the computer-based system to perform operations comprising:

determining, by the computer-based system, a first group of customers for an ad impression;

selecting, by the computer-based system and based on the determining, a second group of customers based on look alike modeling of the first group of customers,

wherein a first customer is part of the second group of customers;

creating, by a computer-based system, a tag that includes a campaign request by a merchant, wherein the campaign request indicates the ad impression for the first customer based on the tag;

further creating, by the computer-based system, the tag with additional instructions that cause, upon a web client navigating to a website, a cookie to be transmitted from the web client to the media buyer system to indicate that the first customer is online such that the media buyer system purchases the ad impression that is sent to the first customer;

tagging, by the computer-based system, the cookie with the tag that includes the campaign request for the first customer;

anonymizing, by the computer-based system, the cookie to create an anonymized cookie by stripping the personal information (PII) that is associated with a first customer;

installing, by the computer-based system, the anonymized cookie on the web client associated with the first customer;

receiving, by the computer-based system, data from the anonymized cookie;

modifying, by the computer-based system, the tag associated with the cookie to at least one of;

associate or disassociate the first customer with at least one of;

a category or type of the ad impression;

selecting, by the computer-based system, the ad impression from the at least one of;

the category or the type of the ad impression;

transmitting, by the computer-based system, the ad impression to the web client associated with the first customer;

identifying, by the computer-based system, a first expenditure associated with the first customer that received the ad impression;

comparing, by the computer-based system, the first expenditure to a second expenditure associated with a second customer that did not receive the ad impression based on the campaign request but fits parameters associated with the campaign request; and

generating, by the computer-based system, a report showing the results of the comparing.