Ad Insertion Platform Filtering for Video Ad Campaigns

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Solution Overview

Problem

Existing online advertising networks face inefficiencies in matching content publishers with advertisers, leading to degraded brand reputation and reduced profitability and performance.

Innovation Solution

An ad insertion platform manages video advertisement placement by utilizing database entries and lists, including whitelists and blacklists, to filter and present appropriate advertisement opportunities to buyers, ensuring efficient matching and brand safety.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Adaptability or versatility

If advertisement exchanges are used to match buyers with sellers, then the opportunity to display advertisements is expanded, but inefficient matching occurs which degrades brand reputation and reduces profitability

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveadvertisement matching capabilityVSAvoidbrand reputation
Core Design Contradiction:
Adaptability or versatilityVSReliability

Solution Approach 1:

The patent introduces an ad insertion platform as an intermediary between publishers and buyers. This platform uses database entries and filtering lists (whitelists/blacklists) to mediate the matching process, ensuring that advertisements are appropriately filtered and matched before being presented to buyers, thereby maintaining brand reputation while enabling versatile advertisement placement opportunities

Inventive Principle:
Principle #24Intermediary (Mediator)

Solution Approach 2:

The system performs preliminary filtering of advertisement opportunities using database entries and filtering lists before presenting them to buyers. By pre-processing and pre-filtering advertisement data, the system ensures that only appropriate advertisements are considered for placement, preventing brand reputation damage before it occurs while maintaining efficient matching capabilities

Inventive Principle:
Principle #10Preliminary action

2Reliability

If filtering rules and lists are implemented to ensure appropriate advertisement placement, then brand safety is improved, but system complexity increases due to database management and list maintenance

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvebrand safetyVSAvoidsystem complexity
Core Design Contradiction:
ReliabilityVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The patent segments the filtering system into distinct components: database entries for known domains, whitelist lists for approved publishers, blacklist lists for excluded publishers, and monitoring software for continuous validation. This segmentation allows each component to handle specific aspects of filtering independently, making the overall complex system more manageable and maintainable while ensuring comprehensive brand safety

Inventive Principle:
Principle #1Segmentation

3Measurement precision

If monitoring software is used to track and modify database entries, then advertisement placement accuracy is improved, but processing time and computational resources increase

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveadvertisement placement accuracyVSAvoidprocessing time
Core Design Contradiction:
Measurement precisionVSLoss of time

Solution Approach 1:

The monitoring software performs preliminary checks against the database and filtering lists before advertisement placement decisions are made. By pre-validating publisher domains and pre-determining placement appropriateness, the system reduces the computational burden during real-time bidding, thereby maintaining high placement accuracy while minimizing processing time delays

Inventive Principle:
Principle #10Preliminary action

Data Source

PatentUS10643250B2Controlling effectiveness of online video advertisement campaign
Publication Date: 2020.05.05 YAHOO AD TECH LLC
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AI summary

The disclosure provides technology for managing the placement of advertisements. An ad insertion platform contains one or more lists that allow the ad insertion platform to filter advertisement placements and manage placing advertisement opportunities to the appropriate buyers. The disclosure also provides a database and monitoring software to allow faster querying and management of data for the real time bidding system.