PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16353550
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2019-03
Publication Date: 2019-09
Patent Classification: ["705", "014710"]

Abstract:
Systems and methods that provide electronic bidding on digital advertising placed on non-personal digital devices in public or semi-public settings and enable subsequent consumer actions taken on other media channels and devices to be attributed to such advertising in digital ad buying systems.

Claim (Index 1):
A method comprising:\n (A) receiving, at one or more computers, from a non-personal digital device, an indication that an ad slot will be available for display of a digital advertisement on the non-personal digital device at a first period of time; (B) calling, by the one or more computers, N digital ad buying systems, where N is equal to one or more, the step of calling comprising:\n (i) estimating, by the one or more computers, a projected number of advertising impressions related to the digital advertisement displayed by the non-personal digital device during the first period of time; \n (ii) generating an impression estimate X based on at least the projected number of advertising impressions; \n (iii) generating, by the one or more computers, Y bid requests for each of the N digital ad buying systems, where Y is equal to the number of different messages required to express advertising formats supported by both the non-personal digital device and the N digital ad buying systems; and \n (iv) sending, by the one or more computers, to each of the N digital ad buying systems, the Y bid requests, with each of the Y bid requests comprising the impression estimate X; and \n (C) receiving, by the one or more computers, from each of the N digital ad buying systems, Y bid responses to the Y bid requests, wherein the Y bid responses include Z bids, where Z is equal to one or more, each of the Z bids comprising:\n (i) pricing information associated with a price that a respective digital ad buying system of the N digital buying systems is willing to pay per impression; \n (ii) digital advertisement creative information, wherein the digital advertisement creative information includes at least one of a digital advertisement creative or an identifier associated with a previously registered digital advertisement creative, where the digital advertisement creative is to be displayed in the case where the bid response is a winning bid response; \n (iii) metadata associated with the digital advertisement creative information; and \n (iv) digital ad buying impression data configured for registering up to X impressions in the respective digital ad buying system; \n (D) selecting, by the one or more computers, from at least some of the bid responses received from the N digital ad buying systems, a winning bid included in a winning bid response associated with a winning digital ad buying system of the N digital buying systems associated with a winning advertiser; (E) notifying, by the one or more computers, the winning digital ad buying system of the winning bid included in the winning bid response, the step of notifying comprising:\n (i) obtaining, by the one or more computers, from the winning bid response, X sets of digital ad buying impression data provided by the winning digital ad buying system associated with the winning advertiser, the X sets of digital ad buying impression data configured to generate one or more won impression notifications after receipt of an initial win notification; \n (ii) generating, by the one or more computers, X won impression notifications based on at least the obtained X sets of digital ad buying impression data; \n (iii) generating, by the one or more computers, X unique placeholder advertising identifiers; \n (iv) appending, by the one or more computers, the X unique placeholder advertising identifiers to the X won impression notifications; and \n (v) sending, from the one or more computers to the winning digital ad buying system, the X won impression notifications with the appended unique placeholder advertising identifiers; \n (F) accessing, by the one or more computers, the digital advertising creative associated with the winning bid; (G) formatting, by the one or more computers, the winning digital advertising creative for display on the non-personal digital device, the step of formatting comprising:\n (i) modifying, by the one or more computers, the winning digital advertising creative to optimize size and location associated with the display of the winning digital advertising creative on the non-personal digital device; \n (ii) extracting, by the one or more computers, from the winning digital advertising creative, one or more ad tags for capturing information related to delivery of the winning digital advertising creative; and \n (iii) extracting, by the one or more computers, from the winning digital advertising creative, one or more click trackers provided for recording interactions and recording events initiated on one or more personal electronic devices associated with one or more consumers exposed to the winning digital advertising creative.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 31.0
- Percentile: 99.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.29412
- Patent Class: 705.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['12718000', '13076276', '14941329', '12986985', '13185236']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.1106326799410761
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5213054964426471
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.1516999615912332
- Mean Citation Score: 297.269154
- Max Citation Score: 321.4031700000001
- Similarity Product: 240.71607422719543

Labels:
- Claim Label 101: 0
- Claim Label 102: 1
- Claim Label 103: 0
- Claim Label 112: 1
- Combined Label: 0
- Label 101 Adjusted: 0

Dataset: test