Evolving Ad Unit Optimizes Revenue via Dynamic Parameter Adjustment

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Solution Overview

Problem

Determining optimal advertising characteristics for online advertisements is a time-intensive process, as effective characteristics can lose effectiveness over time and vary by season, user demographics, and website type, making it challenging to maintain advertising performance.

Innovation Solution

An evolving advertising system that automatically optimizes internet advertising by storing an evolving advertisement unit with initial configuration parameters and altering its characteristics based on automatically generated parameters using machine learning and trigger events, such as seasonal changes or user feedback, to optimize advertisement performance metrics.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Reliability

If advertisement characteristics are manually optimized, then advertising performance can be improved, but the process becomes time-intensive and cannot keep up with changing effectiveness

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveadvertising performanceVSAvoidoptimization time
Core Design Contradiction:
ReliabilityVSLoss of time

Solution Approach 1:

The system dynamically adjusts advertisement characteristics based on real-time performance data and trigger events. Instead of static manual optimization, the system continuously monitors effectiveness metrics and automatically modifies advertisement properties (such as background color, text properties, positioning) to maintain optimal performance as user preferences and seasonal factors change.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #15Dynamics

Solution Approach 2:

The system implements a feedback loop where advertisement performance is continuously measured against effectiveness thresholds. When performance drops below the threshold or when trigger events occur (such as seasonal changes), the system automatically initiates re-optimization. This closed-loop feedback mechanism ensures advertising performance is maintained without requiring continuous manual intervention.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #23Feedback

2Reliability

If advertisement characteristics are changed frequently to maintain effectiveness, then advertising performance is maintained, but system complexity increases

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveadvertising effectivenessVSAvoidsystem complexity
Core Design Contradiction:
ReliabilityVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The system performs self-optimization by automatically monitoring its own advertisement performance and initiating changes when needed. The system includes built-in effectiveness tracking, threshold comparison, and automatic parameter adjustment capabilities, eliminating the need for external manual optimization processes and reducing overall system complexity despite frequent adjustments.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #25Self-service

Solution Approach 2:

The system optimizes advertisements by changing specific parameters (such as background color, text font, size, positioning coordinates) based on performance data. Rather than redesigning entire advertisement campaigns, the system makes targeted parameter adjustments to maintain effectiveness, simplifying the optimization process while achieving reliable results.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #35Parameter changes

3Adaptability or versatility

If advertisement characteristics are customized for different seasons and demographics, then user engagement improves, but the number of configurations required increases

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveadvertisement relevanceVSAvoidconfiguration complexity
Core Design Contradiction:
Adaptability or versatilityVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The system applies different advertisement characteristics to specific target audiences and time periods based on performance data. Instead of creating separate configurations for every possible demographic and seasonal combination, the system dynamically adjusts local properties of advertisements (such as background color for summer vs. winter, or text properties for different device types) to achieve high relevance without managing extensive configuration sets.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #3Local quality

Data Source

PatentUS10373193B2Learning display parameters to maximize advertising revenue
Publication Date: 2019.08.06 MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING LLC
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AI summary

In one embodiment, an evolving advertising system automatically optimizes internet advertising. A data storage unit 250 may store an evolving advertisement unit 320 with an advertisement characteristic according to an initial configuration parameter. A communication interface 280 may transmit the evolving advertisement unit 320 as part of a primary website 310. A processor 220 may alter the evolving advertisement unit 320 automatically upon a trigger event by changing the advertisement characteristic to follow an automatically generated configuration parameter to optimize an advertisement performance metric.