System for providing targeted advertisements using advertiser-specific target groups
First Claim
1. A system for creating advertiser-specific target groups, the system comprising:
- a query generator for forming at least one query;
an advertiser interface for directing the at least one query to an advertiser and receiving a response to the at least one query from the advertiser, the response including advertiser-specific group parameters; and
a group manager for receiving the advertiser'"'"'s query response and forming advertiser-specific target groups based on the query response.
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Abstract
In the present invention, advertisers can effectively perform targeted TV advertising using “advertiser-specific” target groups. Each advertiser defines its own target groups based on the preferred characteristics of the advertiser to form advertiser-specific target groups. Each person who is enabled to receive the advertisements (e.g., a subscriber to a cable TV service) is associated with appropriate target groups of the different advertisers, and this target group information may be stored at the subscriber'"'"'s side or accessible by the subscriber'"'"'s device such as a set top box or PVR. Based on the stored information, the advertisements that have been associated with the target groups of the subscriber, are then selected and displayed to the subscriber on a TV.
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56 Claims
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1. A system for creating advertiser-specific target groups, the system comprising:
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a query generator for forming at least one query;
an advertiser interface for directing the at least one query to an advertiser and receiving a response to the at least one query from the advertiser, the response including advertiser-specific group parameters; and
a group manager for receiving the advertiser'"'"'s query response and forming advertiser-specific target groups based on the query response. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34, 35, 36, 38, 39)
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16. A subscriber system for a particular subscriber, comprising:
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means for storing a group map, the group map identifying a list of subscribers and a list of advertiser-specific target groups associated with each of the listed subscribers, the list of subscribers including the particular subscriber; and
means for advertising to the particular subscriber based on the stored group map.
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28. A method of providing subscriber-specific advertisements using advertiser-specific target groups, comprising the steps of:
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forming a set of advertiser-specific target groups for each of a plurality of advertisers based on advertiser-specific group characteristics;
associating the target groups from each of the sets with at least one subscriber based on certain characteristics of the at least one subscriber;
storing results of the associating step in an advertisement processing system; and
providing subscriber-specific advertisements to the at least one subscriber based on the stored results.
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37. A method of providing subscriber-specific advertisements, comprising the steps of:
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identifying a list of subscribers and a list of advertiser-specific target groups associated with each of the listed subscribers;
storing results of the identifying step locally to each of the listed subscribers; and
selecting, by an advertisement processing system of each of the listed subscribers, advertisements based on the stored results of the identifying step, so as to provide the subscriber-specific advertisements to each of the listed subscribers.
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40. A method of advertising to subscribers, comprising the steps of:
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storing a group map in an advertisement processing system, the group map identifying a list of subscribers and a list of advertiser-specific target groups associated with each of the listed subscribers; and
advertising to the listed subscribers based on the stored group map. - View Dependent Claims (41, 42, 43, 44, 45, 46, 47, 48, 49, 50, 51, 52)
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53. A method of advertising to subscribers, comprising the steps of:
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storing a group map in an advertisement processing system of each of subscribers, the group map identifying a list of the subscribers, a list of current advertiser-specific target groups associated with each of the listed subscribers, and information on next advertiser-specific target groups associated with each of the listed subscribers; and
advertising to the listed subscribers based on the stored group map. - View Dependent Claims (54, 55, 56)
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