Patent ID: 7801778
Filing Date: 2010-09-21
Classification: G06Q,Y10S

Abstract:
1. A computer program product for an enterprise advertisement inventory management system comprising: a computer-readable storage medium; price strategy program logic on said computer-readable storage medium to facilitate improved advertising revenue; price forecasting program logic on said computer-readable storage medium to accept user criteria and to generate a log of one or more advertising time segments that meet a predetermined user request criteria; yield management program logic on said computer-readable storage medium to communicate, generate and maintain advertising inventory pricing information to be utilized by the price forecasting program logic in accordance with improving advertising revenue; traffic billing program logic on said computer-readable storage medium to generate order confirmations regarding selected inventory and to maintain, schedule, process and track data files relating to such order confirmations; and network interface logic on said computer-readable storage medium to facilitate access to time sensitive inventory pricing information for multiple media outlets in response to a user request so that the log includes advertising inventory from a plurality of media outlets which meet such criteria, wherein the network interface logic sends a reservation indicator to selected media outlets in response to a user input to reserve availability at the selected media outlets.