SHARING VALUE BACK TO DISTRIBUTED INFORMATION PROVIDERS IN AN ADVERTISING EXCHANGE
First Claim
1. A method for facilitating transactions for advertisement space in an advertising exchange including a publisher broker to represent at least one publisher and an advertiser broker to represent at least one advertiser, wherein the advertising exchange federates at least two disparate advertising networks, comprising:
- receiving information from a plurality of distributed users including associating the information with the user originating the information;
for each user of the plurality of distributed users, quantifying the value of any information received from the user according to a function that represents a value of the information to one or more transactions conducted in the exchange; and
automatically generating a benefit for each user as a function of the quantifiable value of the information provided by each user.
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Abstract
For a multi-party advertising exchange including advertising and publishing entities, automatic value sharing is provided for distributed users of the advertising exchange that provide valuable information to the exchange. Users provide information that has quantifiable value to the advertising exchange and/or its participants. In exchange for the information, predicated on any function or cost model for quantifying the value of the information, a reward or advantage, such as revenue, is given to the user by the advertising exchange and/or participants of the advertising exchange in order to incentivize users'"'"' valuable contributions. As a result, the advertising exchange becomes a more efficient marketplace, increasing predictability and the participant(s) benefit in correspondence with the value of any information received by those participant(s). Various refinements are provided and disclosed according to a host of optional embodiments.
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20 Claims
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1. A method for facilitating transactions for advertisement space in an advertising exchange including a publisher broker to represent at least one publisher and an advertiser broker to represent at least one advertiser, wherein the advertising exchange federates at least two disparate advertising networks, comprising:
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receiving information from a plurality of distributed users including associating the information with the user originating the information; for each user of the plurality of distributed users, quantifying the value of any information received from the user according to a function that represents a value of the information to one or more transactions conducted in the exchange; and automatically generating a benefit for each user as a function of the quantifiable value of the information provided by each user. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10)
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11. A method for facilitating transactions for advertisement space in an advertising exchange that federates participants including publishers and advertisers between at least two disparate advertising networks, comprising:
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receiving, from a user of a plurality of distributed users, information by the advertising exchange according to at least one input process, and if the information has value to at least one participant in the advertising exchange, automatically providing a benefit by the user commensurate with the value of the information to one or more participants according to one or more transactions conducted in the advertising exchange based on the information. - View Dependent Claims (12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19)
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20. A system to facilitate trading of advertising, comprising:
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an exchange to facilitate a transaction between a first entity and a second entity for advertisement space across disparate advertising networks; and a facilitator that facilitates the transaction with information that increases the probability of completing at least one transaction in the exchange, wherein the exchange automatically shares revenue to the facilitator based on the value of the information to the first entity or second entity.
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