METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR PROVIDING ADVERTISING INVENTORY INFORMATION IN RESPONSE TO DEOGRAPHIC INQUIRIES

Patent №

US 8,060,416

Granted

2011-11-15

Filed 2001

Owner

YAHOO! INC.

Lab

AI components

4

ml · nlp · planning · hardware

Assignment

Recorded

Dataset

AIPD

2023_r1 edition

Application

09850949

The present invention relates to a method and system for providing advertising inventory information. More specifically, the present invention relates to a method and system for providing advertising inventory information in response to demographic inquiries. In an exemplary embodiment, a server responds to a demographic query. Based on the query, the server queries an advertising inventory database and a contract database to retrieve relevant information. Using the relevant information, the total inventory and the total sold inventory are obtained. Using the now obtained total inventory and the total sold inventory information, the server then provides an estimation of the total available inventory matching the query.

Machine learningNatural languagePlanningAI hardwareG06Q 10/087G06Q 20/203G06Q 30/02G06Q 30/0277

AI classification

Planning1.00
Machine learning0.93
AI hardware0.90
Natural language0.68
Evolutionary computation0.04
Knowledge representation0.01
Vision0.01
Speech0.00

Ownership

YAHOO! INC.

assignment · 120640569

Assignors

MAIN, ROBERT, JUNG, DZ-MOU, KREHBIEL, WENDY, LEGER, DAVID

On an employer assignment, the assignors are typically the inventors.

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