API for maintenance and delivery of advertising content

Abstract

A system comprises multiple pods coupled to a network, each pod including a data store for storing advertisement campaigns for users, each advertisement campaign containing user information, advertisement information and bid information for requesting presentation of an advertisement upon the occurrence of a predetermined event; and an application program interface capable of accessing the data store; at least one pod including a forecasting component for enabling user selection of the predetermined event; and an optimization component for assisting with selection of the bid information.

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PRIORITY CLAIM [0001] This application is a continuation of and incorporates by reference U.S. patent application Ser. No. 11 / 324,129, entitled “System and Method for Advertising Management,” filed on Dec. 30, 2005, by inventors Robert J. Collins, et al., which claims priority to U.S. Provisional Patent Application Ser. No. 60 / 703,904, entitled “System and Method Allowing Information Provider Access to a Networked Database Search System,” filed on Jul. 29, 2005, the disclosure of which is hereby incorporated herein by reference in its entirety.COPYRIGHT NOTICE [0002] A portion of the disclosure of this patent document contains material which is subject to copyright protection. The copyright owner has no objection to the facsimile reproduction by anyone of the patent document or the patent disclosure, as it appears in the Patent and Trademark Office patent files or records, but otherwise reserves all copyright rights whatsoever. FIELD OF THE INVENTION [0003] This invention relates in...

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Benefits of technology

[0011] In accordance with another embodiment, the present invention provides a method comprising providing multiple pods coupled to a network; storing advertisement campaigns for users on the multiple pods, each advertisement campaign containing user information, advertisement information and bid information for requesting presentation of an advertisement upon the occurrence of a predetermined event; enabling access to the data store using an application program interface; enabling user selection of the predetermined event by a forecasting component; and assisting with selection of the bid information using an optimization component.

Problems solved by technology

Determining how to efficiently and optimally spend an advertising budget, as well as implementing and managing an ongoing advertising campaign (or campaigns) utilizing such a budget, however, can pose a daunting challenge to advertisers.

Online advertisers participating in such an auction-based system may face the challenge of managing and optimizing potentially frequent bidding on, for example, each of thousands or hundreds of thousands of search terms or groups of search terms.

Existing techniques for managing and optimizing advertising campaigns fall far short of providing efficient, effective solutions to these problems.

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