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Calculating flight plans for reservation-based ad serving

US9053492B1 · kind B1 · utility

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Filing dateOct 19, 2006
Grant dateJun 9, 2015
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Expiry dateOct 8, 2029

Classification

  • Technology area (CPC G)Physics
  • CPC primaryG06Q30/0224
  • WIPO fieldIT methods for management
  • WIPO sectorElectrical engineering

Abstract

The disclosure provides various embodiments of systems, methods, and software for supporting server-side product catalogs. Software for managing ad serving may comprise computer readable instructions embodied on media and be operable to identify a logically local directed graph representing a logically remote network property associated with a publisher. The network property is associated with at least one product catalog representing a package of network ad slots. The software may then generate an ad service flight plan for serving various ones of a plurality of ads associated with a first of the network ad slots using an iterative solution on the directed graph.

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