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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 19, 2013
Filed:
Jun. 15, 2009
David Robert Kauchak, San Mateo, CA (US);
Richard Edward Chatwin, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
David Robert Kauchak, San Mateo, CA (US);
Richard Edward Chatwin, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Adchemy, Inc., Redwood City, CA (US);
Abstract
In one embodiment, a method includes accessing online advertising data including metric values for one or more online advertising spaces; identifying pairs of the user variables; for each of the pairs, calculating a statistical score for each of the online advertising metrics and calculating a weighted score based on all the statistical scores for the pair; selecting one of the pairs based on its weighted score; and performing a merge test on the selected pair; and merging the user variables in the selected one of the pairs with each other if the selected one of the pairs passes the merge test.