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Date of Patent:
Feb. 04, 2014

Filed:

Sep. 30, 2008
Applicants:

Biswadeep Nag, Fremont, CA (US);

Wei Du, Burbank, CA (US);

Charles Wang, Union City, CA (US);

Jessi Dong, Saratoga, CA (US);

Michael Helman, Oakland, CA (US);

Inventors:

Biswadeep Nag, Fremont, CA (US);

Wei Du, Burbank, CA (US);

Charles Wang, Union City, CA (US);

Jessi Dong, Saratoga, CA (US);

Michael Helman, Oakland, CA (US);

Assignee:

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

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06Q 30/00 (2012.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract

A system and method are disclosed for optimizing the performance of an advertisement. The advertisement may be targeted based on correlations between advertisements and/or users. The correlations may be used to improve the click-through rate of advertisements. As data is collected and feedback is received, the correlation between ads and users may be updated, so that an advertiser's campaign can optimize its targeting of users.


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