System for serving data that matches content related to a search results page

• US 9,940,641 B2
• Filed: 07/18/2016
• Issued: 04/10/2018
• Est. Priority Date: 04/25/2007
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: R2 Solutions LLC (Acacia Research Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Excalibur IP, LLC (Acacia Research Corporation)
• Inventors: Madhavan, Anand, Kapur, Shyam, Carinio, Matthew
• Primary Examiner(s): Wong, Leslie
• Application Number:
  US15/213,070
• Publication Number:
  US 20160328744A1
• Time in Patent Office: 631 Days
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/951 Indexing; Web crawling techniques
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/955 using information identifiers, e.g. uniform resource locators [URL]
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/02 Marketing; Price estimation or determination; Fundraising
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0256 User search
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0275 Auctions
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0277 Online advertisement

Abstract

A system is described for serving data matching content in a search engine marketing system. The system may include a processor, an interface and a memory. The memory may be operatively connected to the processor and may store a page, a content related to the page, a set of terms and a data. The interface may be operatively connected to the memory and the processor and may be used to communicate with a user. The processor may identify a page and a content, perform a semantic analysis on the content to generate a set of terms, match the set of terms to a data, add the data to the page, and the serve the page to a user via the interface.

Claims

1. A method for serving data that matches user behavior, comprising:

receiving a search query;

identifying a search results page resulting from executing of the search query;

receiving a first number of sponsored search results from a sponsored search server;

determining a number of available slots on an interface for sponsored search results;

determining that the first number of sponsored search results is less than the number of available slots;

identifying available slots not filled by the first number of sponsored search results;

processing user behavior data of the user associated with the search query to generate a set of terms in response to determining that the first plurality of sponsored search results is less than the number of available slots;

matching the set of terms to a data; and

adding the data to the search results page in the available slots not filled by the first number of search results.

2. The method of claim 1 further comprising serving the search results page.

3. The method of claim 2 wherein serving the search results page further comprises displaying the search results page to a user.

4. The method of claim 1 wherein the processing comprises a semantic analysis.

5. The method of claim 1 wherein the data comprises an online advertisement.

6. The method of claim 5 wherein the online advertisement comprises at least one of:

a sponsored listing, a banner advertisement and a pop up advertisement.

7. The method of claim 1 wherein adding the data to the search results page further comprises adding a second number of sponsored search results to the search results page in the available slots not filled by the first number of search results.

8. The method of claim 1 further comprising extracting the user behavior data from a user cookie.

9. The method of claim 1 wherein the user behavior data comprises a keyword describing a behavior of the user associated with the search query.

10. The method of claim 1 further comprising:

identifying a content of a result listed on the search results page;

processing the content to generate a second set of terms in response to determining that the first plurality of sponsored search results is less than the number of available slots; and

matching the first set of terms and the second set of terms to the data.

11. A method for serving data on a search results page that matches user behavior data, comprising:

identifying a search results page corresponding to a search query;

retrieving a first number of advertisements related to the query from a sponsored search server;

determining that the first number of advertisements is less than an amount of available space for advertisements on an interface;

determining an additional amount of available space for additional advertisements beyond the first number of search results;

identifying a user behavior data relating to the user in response to determining that the first number of advertisements is less than an amount of available space for advertisements on an interface;

processing the user behavior data to generate a set of terms;

matching the set of terms to a data;

adding the data to the search results page; and

serving the search results page to the user.

12. The method of claim 11 wherein the user behavior data comprises at least one of:

a data describing a historical behavior of the user, and a data describing a historical behavior of a set of users.

13. The method of claim 11 wherein the amount of available space for advertisements on the interface comprises a number of available advertisement slots on the interface.

14. The method of claim 11 further comprising extracting the user behavior data from a user cookie.

15. The method of claim 11 further comprising

identifying a content of a result listed on the search results page;

processing the content to generate a second set of terms in response to determining that the first plurality of sponsored search results is less than the number of available slots; and

matching the first set of terms and the second set of terms to the data.

16. A system for serving data that matches user behavior, comprising:

a memory to store a search results page, a number of available slots on an interface, a set of terms and a data;

an interface operatively connected to the memory and a processor for communicating with a user;

the processor operatively connected to the memory, the processor configured to;

identify the search results page;

receive a first number of sponsored search results from a sponsored search server;

determine a number of available slots on an interface for sponsored search results;

determine that the first number of sponsored search results is less than the number of available slots;

processes user behavior data of the user associated with the search query to generate the set of terms in response to determining that the first plurality of sponsored search results is less than the number of available slots;

match the set of terms to the data;

add the data to the page; and

serve the page to the user via the interface.

17. The system of claim 16 wherein the processor receives a communication from the user requesting the page via the interface.

18. The system of claim 16 wherein the processing comprises a semantic analysis.

19. The system of claim 16 wherein the data comprises an online advertisement.

20. The system of claim 19 wherein the online advertisement comprises at least one of:

a sponsored listing, a banner advertisement and a popup advertisement.