Predictive Targeting Model for Ad Conversion

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Solution Overview

Problem

Current advertising technologies lack the ability to effectively target users based on their behavioral patterns and geographic affinities beyond proximity to specific locations, leading to inefficient ad delivery.

Innovation Solution

A predictive targeting model that utilizes behavioral data, user profile data, and geographic features to identify locations with high conversion rates and user affinities, allowing for targeted advertising regardless of the user's proximity to specific businesses or demographics.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Adaptability or versatility

If advertisers use current location information and nearby business information for targeting, then advertising delivery is simple and direct, but the targeting capability is limited and cannot effectively reach users with high affinity for brands

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvetargeting capabilityVSAvoidsystem complexity
Core Design Contradiction:
Adaptability or versatilityVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The system performs preliminary actions by collecting and analyzing user behavioral data, device information, and location history in advance to build predictive models. These models pre-calculate user affinities and conversion probabilities before advertising campaigns launch, enabling sophisticated targeting without real-time computational complexity.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #10Preliminary action

Solution Approach 2:

The patent introduces intermediary components including predictive modeling systems, data processing layers, and affinity calculation engines that mediate between raw data and advertising delivery. These intermediaries transform complex multi-source data into simplified targeting signals that can be efficiently used for ad selection and delivery.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #24Intermediary (Mediator)

2Measurement precision

If advertisers target users based on proximity to specific locations, then the targeting method is easy to implement, but it cannot effectively target users based on behavioral patterns and brand affinity

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveuser affinity prediction accuracyVSAvoidbehavioral data analysis complexity
Core Design Contradiction:
Measurement precisionVSDifficulty of detecting and measuring

Solution Approach 1:

The patent replaces mechanical/geographic proximity-based targeting with data-driven predictive modeling. Instead of measuring physical distance to locations, the system uses statistical models and machine learning algorithms to calculate abstract concepts like user affinity, conversion probability, and behavioral patterns, achieving higher precision through computational methods.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #28Mechanics substitution (Replace mechanical system)

Solution Approach 2:

The system changes the fundamental parameters used for targeting from simple geographic coordinates to complex behavioral metrics including device information, location history, app usage patterns, and inferred user preferences. This parameter transformation enables precise measurement of user affinity through multiple data dimensions.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #35Parameter changes

3Productivity

If comprehensive behavioral data and multiple data sources are collected for predictive modeling, then targeting precision is improved, but data processing complexity and computational requirements increase

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveadvertising conversion rateVSAvoiddata processing system complexity
Core Design Contradiction:
ProductivityVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The patent segments the comprehensive data processing system into distinct modular components: data collection modules for different data sources, preprocessing modules for cleaning and standardizing data, modeling modules for affinity calculation, and delivery modules for ad selection. This segmentation reduces overall system complexity by making each component independent and manageable.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #1Segmentation

Solution Approach 2:

The predictive modeling system is designed as a universal platform that can process multiple types of data (location, device, behavioral) and serve multiple advertising objectives simultaneously. The same core infrastructure handles various data sources and model types, reducing redundancy and simplifying the overall system architecture despite handling comprehensive data.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #6Universality (Multi-functionality)

Data Source

PatentUS20230316333A1Determining targeting information based on a predictive targeting model
Publication Date: 2023.10.05 FOURSQUARE LABS INC
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AI summary

A targeting system based on a predictive targeting model based on observed behavioral data including visit data, user profile and/or survey data, and geographic features associated with a geographic region. The predictive targeting model analyzes the observed behavioral data and the geographic features data to predict conversion rates for every cell in a square grid of predefined size on the geographic region. The conversion rate of a cell indicates a likelihood that any random user in that cell will perform a targeted behavior.