Method and system for providing advertising through content specific nodes over the internet
First Claim
1. An Internet advertising system for receiving advertisement information from advertisers for publication through a multi-node hierarchical content-based system, the Internet advertising system comprising:
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sending a multi-level representation of at least a portion of the hierarchy of content nodes to a plurality of advertiser user systems to facilitate selection of one or more of the nodes, the hierarchy of content nodes providing a categorization of information and each content node being associated with one or more web pages, andreceiving advertisement listing information from a plurality of advertiser user systems connecting to the Internet advertising system over the Internet, the advertisement listing information comprising an advertisement title and URL, a selection of one or more nodes with which the advertisement listing information is to be associated, and a bid amount for each node selected;
a computer storage device for storing the advertisement listings; and
a publication means for publishing web page content and advertisement listings to an end user requesting a page associated with a particular node within the multi-node hierarchical system, the publication means delivering content and one or more advertisements associated with the node.
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Abstract
Methods and systems for providing advertising content over the Internet through a hierarchical content-specific node structure and pricing advertising delivery over each node independently. Independent delivery and pricing allows an advertiser to pay more for advertisements delivered to a narrowly targeted audience likely to be interested in the goods or services offered by the advertising entity and to pay less for advertisements directed at a more general audience who may or may not have an interest in the goods or services offered. The less content specific the node is, the less targeted the advertisement will be, and therefore, the less valuable the advertisement will be to the advertising entity. Targeted advertising to multiple levels of content specific nodes is enabled.
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32 Claims
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1. An Internet advertising system for receiving advertisement information from advertisers for publication through a multi-node hierarchical content-based system, the Internet advertising system comprising:
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a communication interface for; sending a multi-level representation of at least a portion of the hierarchy of content nodes to a plurality of advertiser user systems to facilitate selection of one or more of the nodes, the hierarchy of content nodes providing a categorization of information and each content node being associated with one or more web pages, and receiving advertisement listing information from a plurality of advertiser user systems connecting to the Internet advertising system over the Internet, the advertisement listing information comprising an advertisement title and URL, a selection of one or more nodes with which the advertisement listing information is to be associated, and a bid amount for each node selected; a computer storage device for storing the advertisement listings; and a publication means for publishing web page content and advertisement listings to an end user requesting a page associated with a particular node within the multi-node hierarchical system, the publication means delivering content and one or more advertisements associated with the node. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 13, 14, 15, 16, 29, 30)
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10. An Internet advertising system for receiving advertisement information from advertisers for publication through a multi-node hierarchical content-based system, the Internet advertising system comprising:
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an interactive database server that sends a multi-level representation of at least a portion of the hierarchy of content nodes to a plurality of advertiser user systems to facilitate selection of one or more of the nodes, the hierarchy of content nodes providing a categorization of information and each content node being associated with one or more web pages, and receives advertisement listing information from a plurality of advertiser user systems connecting to the Internet advertising system over the Internet, the advertisement listing information comprising an advertisement title and URL, a selection of one or more nodes with which the advertisement listing information is to be associated, and a bid amount for each node selected; a database that stores the advertisement listings; and a network file server that delivers web page content and advertisement listings to a plurality of end users requesting one or more pages associated with one or more nodes in the multi-node hierarchical system, the content and advertisement listings delivered being based on the node associated with the page by an end user. - View Dependent Claims (11, 12, 17, 18, 31)
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19. A method of enabling advertisers to list an advertisement for publication through a multi-node hierarchical content-based system, the method implemented by a server system and comprising:
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sending, through a communication interface, a multi-level representation of at least a portion of the hierarchy of content nodes to a plurality of advertiser user systems to facilitate selection of one or more of the nodes, the hierarchy of content nodes providing a categorization of information and each content node being associated with one or more web pages; receiving, through a communication interface, advertisement listing information from a plurality of advertiser user systems connecting to the Internet advertising system over the Internet, the advertisement listing information comprising an advertisement title and URL, a selection of one or more nodes with which the advertisement listing information is to be associated, and a bid amount for each node selected; storing the advertisement listings in a database; and publishing, using one or more data processors, web page content and advertisement listings to an end user requesting a particular page associated with a node within the multi-node hierarchical system, the published information including content associated with the node associated with the page requested and advertisements associated with that particular node. - View Dependent Claims (20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 32)
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28. An Internet advertising method, the method implemented by a server system and comprising:
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sending, through a communication interface, a multi-level representation of at least a portion of the hierarchy of content nodes to a plurality of advertiser user systems to facilitate selection of one or more of the nodes, the hierarchy of content nodes providing a categorization of information and each content node being associated with one or more web pages; receiving, through a communication interface, advertisement listing information comprising a title of an advertisement, a URL for the advertisement, a first bid associated with a first content topic under a content category and a second bid associated with a second content topic under the same content category; and serving, using one or more data processors, an advertisement based on the advertisement listing information for requests associated with the first or second content topic based on the first or second bid relative to other bids associated with other advertisements for that content topic.
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