47 results about "Contextual advertising" patented technology

A method and system for providing contextual advertising content from an advertising database is disclosed. Content data of a target server may be scanned for a matching keyword, which may be provided by a weighted keyword database. A subset of the content data may be generated, in which the subset may be the matching keyword. A weight may be assigned to the matching keyword, based upon a comparison to the weighted keyword database. An advertising content request may be generated based upon the assigned weight of the matching keyword.

Various techniques are disclosed for delivering contextual advertising information to end users of a data network via a mobile device. At least one operation may be initiated to determine the features, capabilities and/or services supported at an identified mobile device. A first contextual advertising delivery technique may be implemented in response to a determination that a first type of functionality is supported at the identified mobile device. A second contextual advertising delivery technique may be implemented in response to a determination that the first type of functionality is not supported at the identified mobile device.

A system and method for creating and serving image-based contextual advertising through programmatically composed image collages, including the procurement, indexing and matching of query images, the procurement, indexing and matching of web images and the transferring of indexed and matched data from those web images to the query images, the procurement, indexing and matching of product images to be used as collage ad components, the matching and selection of one or more decorative template elements and one or more structural templates, the programmatic combining of the product images and the templates and template elements into a collage and the distribution of this collage for display to a user as a collage ad, based at least in part on the visual data extracted and indexed from the query image.

The autonomous avatar driver is useful in association with language sources. A sourcer may receive dialog from the language source. It may also, in some embodiments, receive external data from data sources. A segmentor may convert characters, represent particles and split dialog. A parser may then apply a link grammar, analyze grammatical mood, tag the dialog and prune dialog variants. A semantic engine may lookup token frames, generate semantic lexicons and semantic networks, and resolve ambiguous co-references. An analytics engine may filter common words from dialog, analyze N-grams, count lemmatized words, and analyze nodes. A pragmatics analyzer may resolve slang, generate knowledge templates, group proper nouns and estimate affect of dialog. A recommender may generate tag clouds, cluster the language sources into neighborhoods, recommend social networking to individuals and businesses, and generate contextual advertising. Lastly, a response generator may generate responses for the autonomous avatar using the analyzed dialog. The response generator may also incorporate the generated recommendations.

A system and method for contextual advertising based on status messages. A plurality of status messages sent to a user via at least one socially aware messaging service are retrieved where the user is a member of the socially aware messaging service, has defined at least one social contact on the service, and where each of status messages was sent to the user by one of the user's social contacts. The status messages are analyzed to determine the user's status update context, where the user's status update context comprises a set of social, topical, spatial and temporal data present in the messages. The user's status update context is matched to targeted advertisements. The user's status update context is matched to the targeting criteria of targeted advertisements. Matched advertisements are transmitted to the user.

Various techniques are disclosed for facilitating on-line contextual analysis and/or advertising operations implemented in a computer network. According to some embodiments, various aspects may be used for enabling advertisers to provide contextual advertising promotions to end-users based upon real-time analysis of web page content which may be served to an end-user's computer system. In at least one embodiment, the information obtained from the real-time analysis may be used to select, in real-time, contextually relevant information, advertisements, and/or other content which may then be displayed to the end-user, for example, via real-time insertion of textual markup objects and/or dynamic content. According to specific embodiments, various operations may be performed for adapting or modifying a conventional context-based advertising systems to improve various features such as, for example, ad relevance estimation, click-through rate estimation, advertisement selection and layout, balancing exploration and exploitation, etc.

Various techniques are disclosed for facilitating on-line contextual analysis and/or advertising operations implemented in a computer network. According to some embodiments, various aspects may be used for enabling advertisers to provide contextual advertising promotions to end-users based upon real-time analysis of web page content which may be served to an end-user's computer system. In at least one embodiment, the information obtained from the real-time analysis may be used to select, in real-time, contextually relevant information, advertisements, and/or other content which may then be displayed to the end-user, for example, via real-time insertion of textual markup objects and/or dynamic content. According to specific embodiments, various operations may be performed for adapting or modifying a conventional context-based advertising systems to improve various features such as, for example, ad relevance estimation, click-through rate estimation, advertisement selection and layout, balancing exploration and exploitation, etc.

System and method for contextual advertising in which a video file is encoded with cue points, and an XML file containing contextual advertisement information for at least three products is generated. When a first cue point is reached, the product image, product name and product description for the first contextual advertisement are encapsulated in a link to the product URL and displayed in a bottom panel. As each successive cue point is reached, the product image, product name and product description for each successive contextual advertisement are encapsulated in a link to the product URL for that contextual advertisement and displayed in the bottom panel, and the product image and product name for the contextual advertisement last appearing in the bottom panel are encapsulated in a link to the product URL and added to the side panel.

A system and method for serving contextually relevant advertisements is provided, including monitoring a media stream to indentify an audio or video asset, extracting and storing corresponding text from the asset, retrieving stored text when the asset is selected by a user, analyzing the text and identifying relevant advertisements that are then displayed to a user as a clickable text next to the playing video or audio asset. In further embodiments, the method may include the steps of retrieving a variable length portion of the text corresponding to the portion of the asset being played by the user, analyzing the portion of the text to identify advertisements relevant to the corresponding portion of the asset, displaying the advertisements during the playback of the portion of the asset, and then repeating the steps until the playback of the whole asset is completed.

An online advertising selects online advertisements for display on a network location taking into account a probability that a candidate online advertisement will receive a click on a particular website. The system may determine a network location identity of the network location and transform a set of advertisements into a set of ranked advertisements. The system may determine an advertisement rank of a first advertisement among the set of ranked advertisements. The system then may generate a click probability value. The click probability value may reflect a click probability of the first advertisement by dividing an exponent of a weighted sum of the network location identity and the advertisement rank by one plus the exponent of the weighted sum of the network location identity and the advertisement rank.

A method of delivering advertising content over the internet to a selected client, the selected client being one of a plurality of clients causing display of media content synchronously. The method includes receiving chat text from at least one of the plurality of clients, generating a set of keywords using the chat text, receiving advertising content selected on the basis of the set of keywords from an advertising system, and delivering the advertising content to at least the selected client over the internet.

A method of generating an advertising list using a seed, which can include a plurality of advertisers or a plurality of keywords with an identical property in a single seed and thereby can display various types of advertising information of the plurality of advertisers, which are included in the seed, according to a single condition, and an advertising matching system is provided. According to the present invention, it is possible to provided a method of generating an advertising list using a seed, which can determine a property of a content page using a seed, and thereby can display various types of advertising information of a plurality of advertisers with the determined property, as contextual advertising, for a user, and an advertising matching system using the method.

An improved system and method for using contextual sections of web page content for serving advertisements in online advertising is provided. A publisher may use a tool to identify sections of a web page that represent content to be used in contextual advertising. When rendered by a web browser, content from marked sections may be extracted from the web page and sent to an advertisement server for selectively matching advertisements for display to a user. Features may be identified from the content sections and used to select advertisements matching the extracted content of the web page. In particular, the features identified from the content sections may be matched with features designated by advertisers for advertisements. Web page placements may be allocated for advertisements matching the extracted content, and the advertisements may be served for display with the web page.

The present disclosure is directed to providing supplemental content to one or more client devices requesting multimedia content. The supplemental content may be determined or selected based on the availability of one or more device channels, such as a display, speakers, or other component of the one or more client devices capable of providing an output. The supplemental content may also be selected based on one or more characteristics of the requested multimedia content, such as a genre, subject matter, or duration. Furthermore, the supplemental content may be determined or selected based on the portions of the requested multimedia content that are the most prominent or significant, such as any audio content, any video content, and/or any textual content. The supplemental content may be provided to the one or more client devices such that it is displayed before, during, or after the display of the requested multimedia content.

A computer method and device for intercepting contracting client's sent electronic messages, scanning the message body content for key words, sending the key words to a remote central computer server which analyses the key words and enhances the message by attaching a relevant, contextual advertising tag line or image/banner/words/HTML/Flash, etc. to the electronic message, and transmitting the enhanced message to a receiver.

Disclosed are apparatus and methods for apparatus and methods for facilitating contextual selection of advertisements for displaying online via a computer network. In general, user features in the form of text are provided in conjunction with web page content for contextual advertisement matching. In one embodiment, a request for an advertisement to be displayed in a current web page that has been requested by a current user is received. The current user is associated with one or more current user characteristics from a plurality of different user characteristics, and the current web page has an associated content. A mapping model and the one or more current user characteristics are used to obtain a plurality of user-relevant terms for each of the one or more current user characteristics. A combination of the content of the current web page and obtained user-relevant terms are provided for selecting an advertisement for displaying with the current web page based on such combination.

A method of advertising using a user profile based on a user's interaction with websites, including the time spent on the website and the user's rating of keywords associated with the contents of the website.