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Date of Patent:
Nov. 09, 2010

Filed:

Nov. 21, 2007
Applicants:

Ramazan Demir, Sherman Oaks, CA (US);

Jiaqi Jin, Harrison, NJ (US);

Kerem Tomak, San Francisco, CA (US);

Supratim Roy Chaudhury, Santa Clarita, CA (US);

Inventors:

Ramazan Demir, Sherman Oaks, CA (US);

Jiaqi Jin, Harrison, NJ (US);

Kerem Tomak, San Francisco, CA (US);

Supratim Roy Chaudhury, Santa Clarita, CA (US);

Assignee:

Yahoo! Inc., Sunnyvale, CA (US);

Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 17/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract

A method for maximizing page yield in advertisement display to Web users includes tracking click activity associated with advertisements displayed to users through a hierarchal set of search results pages associated with a keyword; tracking bidding activity by advertisers related to the keyword and corresponding advertisements of the advertisements; applying at least one component model to the click or bidding activity as correlated with a particular search results page of the hierarchal set of search results pages via which the advertisements receiving the click activity are displayed, wherein the at least one component model generates a set of output values representative of the tracked click activity; and providing the output values to the at least one component model to iteratively optimize a number of advertisements displayed on the particular search results page via which at least some of the advertisements are displayed in response to a query for the keyword.


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