Exploration of real-time advertising decisions

K Lee, Q Lu, G Gardelli, D Niu - US Patent App. 14/873,757, 2017 - Google Patents
BACKGROUND 0001 Increasingly, advertising is being integrated with online content, and
vice versa. Online audiences are demanding free content or at least content delivered at …

System and method for context-aware recommendation through user activity change detection

N Hariri, HW Chan - US Patent 9,836,765, 2017 - Google Patents
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407 B1 6, 327, 590 B1 6, 334, 124 B1 6, 418, 448 B1 6, 438, 579 B1 6, 493, 703 B1 6, 502 …

Predicting content performance with interest data

X Zhang, S Ponnekanti, OE Zamir, T Liu - US Patent 9,549,017, 2017 - Google Patents
Systems and methods for predicting content performance with interest data include receiving
a content selection request that includes a client identifier. One or more topical interest …

Methods and apparatus to estimate total audience population distributions

M Sheppard, JR Dailey, D Shah… - US Patent App. 15 …, 2019 - Google Patents
Methods, apparatus, systems and articles of manufacture are disclosed to store first
impression counts of first media impressions corresponding to panelists in a population that …

Methods and apparatus to determine synthetic respondent level data

J Sullivan, MD Morgan, B Shankar, E Murphy… - US Patent …, 2021 - Google Patents
Methods, apparatus, systems, and articles of manufacture are disclosed to generate
synthetic respondent level data. An example apparatus includes: a comparator to compare a …

Methods and apparatus to estimate population reach from different marginal ratings and/or unions of marginal ratings based on impression data

M Sheppard, L Daemen, J Sullivan… - US Patent …, 2022 - Google Patents
Example methods, apparatus, and articles of manufacture are disclosed to estimate
population reach. An example apparatus includes an association controller to generate a …

Method and apparatus for utilizing confidence levels to serve advertisements

SR Haumont, KA Kangas - US Patent App. 13/072,147, 2011 - Google Patents
(54) METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR UTILIZING Publication Classification CONFIDENCE
LEVELS TO SERVE(51) Int. Cl ADVERTISEMENTS G06Q 30/00(2006.01)(75) Inventors …

Methods and apparatus to estimate population reach from marginal ratings

M Sheppard, J Sullivan, E Murphy, MD Morgan… - US Patent …, 2022 - Google Patents
Methods, apparatus, systems, and articles of manufacture are disclosed to to estimate
population reach from marginal ratings. An example apparatus includes an interface to …

Methods and apparatus to replicate panelists using a local minimum solution of an integer least squares problem

M Sheppard, J Sullivan, E Murphy… - US Patent …, 2022 - Google Patents
Example methods and apparatus to replicate panelists using a local minimum solution of an
integer least squares prob lem are disclosed. An example apparatus includes memory; and …

Methods and apparatus to determine synthetic respondent level data using constrained Markov chains

M Sheppard, J Sullivan, MD Morgan… - US Patent …, 2021 - Google Patents
Methods, apparatus, systems, and articles of manufacture are disclosed to generate
synthetic respondent level data. Example apparatus disclosed herein include a synthetic …