Method and system for establishing a reserve price for a publisher's ad space inventory offered via a real-time bidding market

US10157387B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• OpenX Technologies, Inc. · US

Inventors

• Stephan Cunningham · Pasadena, US
• Michael Paul Lum · Pasadena, US
• John Linden · McNeil, US

Key dates

• Filing date: Dec 17, 2009
• Grant date: Dec 18, 2018
• Expiry date: Jul 9, 2031

Classification

• Technology area (CPC G): Physics
• CPC primary: G06Q30/0275
• WIPO field: IT methods for management
• WIPO sector: Electrical engineering

Abstract

Methods and systems for establishing a reserve price for a publisher's ad space inventory offered via a real-time bidding market are disclosed. In some embodiments, a certain percentage of traffic (e.g., ad requests) received at an ad market server are redirected to one or more external networks, such as ad networks, for processing. The performance of the redirected ad requests is analyzed to determine an expected clearing price for the ad requests. The expected clearing price of a particular ad request corresponding to a particular ad space, if greater than a publisher-established reserve price, is used as a market reserve price when presenting the ad requests in a real-time bidding market.