METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR GENERATING AN ELECTRONIC COMMUNICATION

Patent №

US 10,423,977

Granted

2019-09-24

Filed 2013

Owner

GROUPON, INC.

Lab

AI components

3

nlp · kr · evo

Assignment

Recorded

Dataset

AIPD

2023_r1 edition

Application

13930527

A method, apparatus, and computer program product are disclosed to improve generation of electronic communications. The method may provide a plurality of content slots each configured to receive content, the content comprising at least one of promotion content or non-promotion content. The method may also include maintaining a database comprising a plurality of promotion content generators and non-promotion content generators, and determining, using a processor, one of the plurality of promotion content generators or non-promotion content generators for respectively supplying corresponding promotion content or non-promotion content to each of the plurality of content slots. The determining the one of the plurality of promotion content generators or non-promotion content generators may include determining selection parameters, and scoring the plurality of promotion content generators and non-promotion content generators based at least in part on the selection parameters.

AI classification

Evolutionary computation0.96
Natural language0.89
Knowledge representation0.87
AI hardware0.48
Vision0.11
Machine learning0.10
Planning0.09
Speech0.00

Ownership

GROUPON, INC.

assignment · 498310225

Assignors

AYARS, JEFF, GILFANOV, RUSLAN, HOLDEN, JEFF, NICKELS, JOHN M., PROKOPOWICZ, PETE, ROARTY, DAN, THACKER, DAVID

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