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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 23, 2015
Filed:
Jul. 11, 2012
Paul Schelte Albert Reitsma, Marina del Rey, CA (US);
Thomas J. Murray, Iv, Culver City, CA (US);
Peng Zhang, Los Angeles, CA (US);
Paul Schelte Albert Reitsma, Marina del Rey, CA (US);
Thomas J. Murray, IV, Culver City, CA (US);
Peng Zhang, Los Angeles, CA (US);
Google Inc., Mountain View, CA (US);
Abstract
Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer-readable storage medium, and including a method for predicting visibility of web pages. The method comprises identifying web pages that include slots for presenting content. The method further comprises, for each slot, creating a fingerprint based on a URL associated with the page and structural information associated with the slot's location on the page, determining a likelihood of the slot being visible when the web page is initially presented, the likelihood in the form of a predictive model, and saving the fingerprint and predictive model in a data structure. The method further comprises receiving a request for content from a web page, creating fingerprints associated with the web page, and comparing the fingerprints to fingerprints in the data structure. When a matching fingerprint is located, prediction data is used that is associated with a matching fingerprint for the web page.