METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR ADMINISTERING A BIDDING LANGUAGE FOR ONLINE ADVERTISING

Patent №

US 8,527,353

Granted

2013-09-03

Filed 2008

Owner

YAHOO! INC.

Lab

AI components

4

ml · nlp · kr · hardware

Assignment

Recorded

Dataset

AIPD

2023_r1 edition

Application

12211399

A method and apparatus are provided for administering a bidding language for online advertising. In one example, the method includes providing an expressive bidding language that allows an advertiser to specify an ad campaign in a tree structure, receiving the ad campaign that is written in the expressive bidding language, translating the ad campaign into scripts, and using the scripts to access appropriate inventory from an ad inventory database.

AI classification

Natural language1.00
Knowledge representation1.00
AI hardware0.91
Machine learning0.52
Planning0.39
Evolutionary computation0.02
Speech0.00
Vision0.00

Ownership

YAHOO! INC.

assignment · 215360183

Assignors

LAHAIE, SEBASTIEN, PENNOCK, DAVID M, AMER-YAHIA, SIHEM, PARKES, DAVID

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

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