Method of delivery, targeting, and measuring advertising over networks
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1. A method for advertising, comprising:
- receiving, by an advertising server, an advertisement request from a user node, wherein said advertisement request is automatically transmitted based upon a link sent from an affiliate node to said user node in response to a content request sent from said user node to said affiliate node; and
selecting, in response to said advertisement request, an advertisement for delivery to the user node based upon stored information about said user node,wherein selecting an advertisement includes;
determining whether selection criteria associated with advertisements are satisfied based upon the stored information; and
calculating, if the selection criteria associated with more than one advertisement are satisfied, a satisfaction index for each advertisement; and
selecting the advertisement with the lowest satisfaction index,wherein the satisfaction index for an advertisement is at least one of;
directly proportional to the number of times the advertisement has been sent to a user node and the total amount of time over which the advertisement is permitted to be sent to a user node, andinversely proportional to the amount of time expired since the advertisement was first permitted to be sent to a user node and inversely proportional to the maximum number of times the advertisement is permitted to be sent to a user node.
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Abstract
Methods and apparatuses for targeting the delivery of advertisements over a network such as the Internet are disclosed. Statistics are compiled on individual users and networks and the use of the advertisements is tracked to permit targeting of the advertisements of individual users. In response to requests from affiliated sites, an advertising server transmits to people accessing the page of a site an appropriate one of the advertisement based upon profiling of users and networks.
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1. A method for advertising, comprising:
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receiving, by an advertising server, an advertisement request from a user node, wherein said advertisement request is automatically transmitted based upon a link sent from an affiliate node to said user node in response to a content request sent from said user node to said affiliate node; and selecting, in response to said advertisement request, an advertisement for delivery to the user node based upon stored information about said user node, wherein selecting an advertisement includes; determining whether selection criteria associated with advertisements are satisfied based upon the stored information; and calculating, if the selection criteria associated with more than one advertisement are satisfied, a satisfaction index for each advertisement; and selecting the advertisement with the lowest satisfaction index, wherein the satisfaction index for an advertisement is at least one of; directly proportional to the number of times the advertisement has been sent to a user node and the total amount of time over which the advertisement is permitted to be sent to a user node, and inversely proportional to the amount of time expired since the advertisement was first permitted to be sent to a user node and inversely proportional to the maximum number of times the advertisement is permitted to be sent to a user node. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16)
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17. A method for advertising, comprising:
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receiving, by an advertising server, an advertisement request from a user node, wherein the advertisement request is automatically transmitted based upon a link sent from an affiliate node to the user node in response to a content request sent from the user node to the affiliate node; and selecting, in response to the advertisement request, an advertisement for delivery to the user node based upon stored information about the user node, wherein selecting an advertisement includes; determining whether selection criteria associated with advertisements are satisfied based upon the stored information; and selecting, if the selection criteria associated with more than one advertisement are satisfied, an advertisement from among the more than one advertisement an advertisement based on the selected advertisement having one or more of a lesser amount of time remaining in which the advertisement can be selected for delivery, a greater number of impressions of the advertisement remaining to be delivered, a smaller ratio of the number of times the advertisement has been delivered to any user to the total number of impressions of the advertisement scheduled to be delivered, and a greater ratio of the total amount of time in which the advertisement can be delivered to an amount of time expired since the advertisement has become available for delivery.
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