Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Leveraging historic online traffic to identify candidate entities for content delivery
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Application No.: US15224553Application Date: 2016-07-31
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Publication No.: US10785343B2Publication Date: 2020-09-22
- Inventor: Alex Boisvert , Darren Lee , Matthew Heller , Stephen Haberman , Nitin Julka
- Applicant: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
- Applicant Address: US WA Redmond
- Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
- Current Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
- Current Assignee Address: US WA Redmond
- Agency: Hickman Palermo Becker Bingham LLP
- Agent Daniel D. Ledesma
- Main IPC: H04L29/08
- IPC: H04L29/08

Abstract:
A system for transmitting electronic content over a computer network is provided. In one technique, client devices that visit a website send, to a content delivery service, interaction data that indicates that the client devices interacted with the website. Later, a content provider of the website creates a content delivery campaign with the service or establishes (or renews) a retargeting segment for an existing campaign. The content delivery campaign indicates that certain content is to be delivered to entities who have interacted with the content provider, such as by visiting the website. The content delivery service uses the interaction data to identify candidate entities who satisfy targeting criteria of the retargeting segment. If a candidate entity does satisfy the targeting criteria, then the candidate entity is added to the retargeting segment, even though the candidate entity may not have interacted with the website after the retargeting segment was created or renewed.
Public/Granted literature
- US20180034939A1 LEVERAGING HISTORIC ONLINE TRAFFIC TO IDENTIFY CANDIDATE ENTITIES FOR CONTENT DELIVERY Public/Granted day:2018-02-01
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