Optimizing targeted advertisement distribution
Assignee140 Proof, Inc.
InventorsJon Elvekrog, John Manoogian
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Abstract
An iterative method for optimizing targeted advertisement distribution for a social network including a plurality of users, the method including the steps of creating a user summary for a user by extracting persona attributes of a user account, generating a promotion summary for each of a plurality of advertisements, selecting an advertisement for the user based on the similarity between the promotion summary of the advertisement and the user summary, assessing a user reaction to the advertisement, and updating the user summary and promotion summary based on the user reaction.
Claims1
A method for targeted advertisement distribution for a social network including a plurality of users, the method comprising the steps of:
- a) creating a user summary for a user by extracting persona attributes of a user account, the user summary including a plurality of keywords, wherein each keyword is associated with an affiliation weight;
- b) generating a promotion summary for each of a plurality of advertisements, each promotion summary including a plurality of keywords, wherein each keyword is associated with an importance weight;
- c) selecting an advertisement for the user based on the similarity between the promotion summary for the advertisement and the user summary;
- d) assessing a user action in response to the advertisement;
- e) updating the user summary based on the user action assessment;
- f) updating the user summary based on time dependence;
- g) updating the promotion summary based on the user action assessment;
- h) iterating through steps c) to g) until a predetermined metric is met.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.