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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 18, 2014
Filed:
Jul. 27, 2006
Pavel Berkhin, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Shanmugasundaram Ravikumar, Cupertino, CA (US);
Andrew Tomkins, San Jose, CA (US);
John Anthony Tomlin, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Pavel Berkhin, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Shanmugasundaram Ravikumar, Cupertino, CA (US);
Andrew Tomkins, San Jose, CA (US);
John Anthony Tomlin, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Yahoo! Inc., Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Abstract
An improved system and method for web destination profiling for online population-targeted advertising is provided. A web destination profiler may be provided for generating web destination profiles. Traffic may be analyzed at a particular web destination in order to understand the population visiting the web destination. The analysis of user traffic, including differentiated clickstream data, may be applied for determining known characteristics of a web destination profile. Moreover, unknown characteristics of a web destination profile may be determined using a variety of techniques including inferring characteristics by modeling traffic flow through other web destinations, estimating characteristics from other web destination profiles by predicting traffic flow through other web destinations, propagating characteristics to a web destination profile by smoothing a joint distribution of characteristics of other web destination profiles, and so forth. Web destination profiles may be used by applications such as an online application for population-targeted advertising.