Yahoo Japan Corporation

Shinichiro Sega

Koji Tsukamoto

Akihiro Tanabe

Akira Tajima

Toru Takata

Rin Katou

Nobuyuki Akashi

Nari Woo

Naoki Ito

Takashi Tashiro

Shingo Hoshino

An auction apparatus according to the application includes a plan receiving unit and an auction providing unit. The plan receiving unit receives plan information indicating a plan of content from a content creator who creates the content. The auction providing unit presents the plan information received by the plan receiving unit and provides an auction service in which bid targets are a right to display an advertisement in an advertising space that is set to the content and a right to replace the advertisement displayed in the advertising space.

Auction apparatus and auction method

An auction apparatus according to the application includes a plan receiving unit and a providing unit. The plan receiving unit gradually receives plan information indicating a plan of content from a content creator who creates the content a plurality of times. The providing unit additionally presents the plan information which is gradually received by the plan receiving unit and provides an auction service in which a bid target is a right to display an advertisement in an advertising space set to the content.

An advertisement distribution management apparatus in an embodiment includes a distribution management unit. The distribution management unit selectively executes a first operating mode selecting a distribution source apparatus of advertising content for an advertisement request from among the advertisement distribution apparatuses on the basis of a given condition and a second operating mode defining a specific advertisement distribution apparatus as the distribution source apparatus from among the advertisement distribution apparatuses depending on a user making the advertisement request. The distribution management unit further divides the users into a plurality of groups, and performs an assignment process assigning a plurality of time periods shifted from one another within a given period of time to the respective groups as the time periods of the second operating mode.

Advertisement distribution management apparatus, advertisement distribution system, and advertisement distribution management method

A machine learning apparatus includes an analytical information storage unit that stores therein two or more pieces of analytical information each associating input/output information used for machine learning with time-point information indicating a time point of the input/output information, an analysis-object-set specifying unit that specifies an analysis object set containing a unit-period input-output set being a set of pieces of the input/output information corresponding to pieces of the time-point information indicating the time point in a unit period and an amount of the pieces of the input/output information of the set being dependent on a period between the time point of the unit periods and a specific time point, and a machine learning unit that performs machine learning by using the pieces of the input/output information contained in the analysis object set.

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Shinichiro Sega