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Date of Patent:
Aug. 19, 2014

Filed:

Feb. 20, 2009
Applicants:

Deepak K. Agarwal, Sunnyvale, CA (US);

Vanja Josifovski, Los Gatos, CA (US);

Andrei Broder, Menlo Park, CA (US);

Evgeniy Gabrilovich, Sunnyvale, CA (US);

Robert Hall, Pittsburgh, PA (US);

Inventors:

Deepak K. Agarwal, Sunnyvale, CA (US);

Vanja Josifovski, Los Gatos, CA (US);

Andrei Broder, Menlo Park, CA (US);

Evgeniy Gabrilovich, Sunnyvale, CA (US);

Robert Hall, Pittsburgh, PA (US);

Assignee:

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

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06Q 30/02 (2012.01); G06F 17/30 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract

Methods and systems are provided that may be used to determine a probability of whether a visitor to a web document is likely to click on a web advertisement. An exemplary method may include detecting one or more features in a web document. One or more expert statistical models to which the web document belongs may be determined and associated weightings may be determined based, at least in part, on the one or more features detected. A click-through-rate probability for a web advertisement to be placed on the web document may be estimated based on the one or more expert statistical models.


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