Patent ID: 8468058
Filing Date: 2013-06-18
Classification: G06Q

Abstract:
1. An advertisement distribution system to insert a specific advertisement on a communication site screen to be read by a user through a network, comprising: an advertisement distributor terminal that is used by an advertisement distributor who requests distribution of said advertisement; a site manager terminal that is used by a site manager who provides a communication site to be read by said user; a user terminal that is used by the user who reads a communication site with said advertisement inserted thereon; and an advertisement distribution management device communicably connected with said advertisement distributor terminal, said site manager terminal and said user terminal through the network, wherein said advertisement distributor terminal has an advertisement distribution requesting device of accepting input of advertisement distribution request information at least including category information that shows sections where an advertisement the distribution of which is requested is categorized, along with this advertisement, to transmit the information and the advertisement to the advertisement distribution management device, said site manager terminal has an advertisement insertion licensed site designating device of accepting input of advertisement insertion license information at least including category information that shows sections where an advertisement the insertion of which is licensed by the site manager is categorized and inserting location information that designates an advertisement inserting location, to transmit the inputted information to the advertisement distribution management device, said user terminal at least has: a communication site reading requiring device of accepting a requirement for reading a communication site, to transmit the requirement to the advertisement distribution management device; and a communication site displaying device of receiving an advertisement determined based upon the advertisement insertion license information and information of the communication site the reading of which is required from the advertisement distribution management device, to display a site screen with this advertisement inserted thereon, and the advertisement distribution management device at least has: an exposure ratio variation information storing device of associating exposure ratio variation information, with the advertisement and the advertisement distribution request information received in the advertisement distribution request accepting device, said variation information increasing an exposure ratio of said advertisement, to store the variation information; an advertisement distribution request accepting device of receiving the advertisement and the advertisement distribution request information from the advertisement distributor terminal; an advertisement distributor information storing device of mutually associating and storing the advertisement and the advertisement distribution request information which were received in the advertisement distribution request accepting device; a site information storing device of previously mutually associating and storing communication site information and information of the number of insertion frames for advertisements to be inserted on the communication site screen; a site manager information accepting device of receiving the advertisement insertion license information from the site manager terminal; a site manager information storing device of storing the advertisement insertion license information received in the site manager information accepting device; a communication site reading requirement accepting device of receiving the requirement for reading a communication site from the user terminal; an advertisement inserted number specifying device of acquiring site information in response to reception of a requirement for reading a communication site in said communication site reading requirement accepting device, to acquire information of the number of insertion frames for advertisements to be inserted on said communication site screen with reference to said site information storing device; a category extracting device of extracting category information based upon inserting location information with reference to the site manager information storing device with the communication site, which was received in the communication site reading requirement accepting device and the reading of which is required, taken as the advertisement inserting location; a category determining device of allocating unique numbers to a plurality of pieces of extracted category information and repeating determination of category information out of those numbers by the use of random numbers in accordance with the number of advertisement insertion frames specified in said advertisement inserted number specifying device, to determine category information as an object to be displayed in accordance with the number of advertisement insertion frames; an advertisement determining device of; acquiring all advertisements belonging to said category information determined in said category determining device per each of said determined advertisement insertion frames with reference to said advertisement distributor information storing device after determination of the category information in said category determining device, and also increasing the probability of selection of advertisement information in accordance with the exposure ratio variation information set with respect to the advertisement with reference to said exposure ratio variation information storing device, so as to select and determine an advertisement to be displayed; and an advertisement distributing device of transmitting the determined advertisement to said user terminal along with the information of the communication site the reading of which is required.