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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 08, 2020
Filed:
Jun. 17, 2015
Facebook, Inc., Menlo Park, CA (US);
Dwight Ewing Crow, San Francisco, CA (US);
FACEBOOK, INC., Menlo Park, CA (US);
Abstract
An online system provides a virtual world including a plurality of locations spatially distributed throughout the virtual world. The online system receives sponsorship requests for generating locations in the virtual world associated with one or more advertisers. A sponsorship request identifies a position in the virtual world for presenting the location and a bid amount specifying an amount of compensation to the online system for presenting the location at the position in the virtual world. When an opportunity to present a location at a position in the virtual world to a user is identified, the online system selects a location from the received sponsorship request for presentation at the position based at least in part on the bid amounts of the sponsorship requests.