Product Sample Advertisement Targeting System

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Solution Overview

Problem

Advertisers face challenges in identifying and targeting consumers likely to purchase their products based on online interactions, particularly in offering relevant product samples that align with user interests and reduce shipping costs.

Innovation Solution

A system and method for managing product sample advertisements, where a service provider selects and renders advertisements for product samples based on focus product identifiers, considering factors like warehouse location and popularity, to offer relevant samples with focus products, optimizing inventory management and user engagement.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Productivity

If product sample advertisements are offered to all consumers, then consumer engagement increases, but advertising costs and shipping costs increase

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveconsumer engagementVSAvoidadvertising costs and shipping costs
Core Design Contradiction:
ProductivityVSLoss of energy

Solution Approach 1:

The system performs preliminary analysis of consumer online interactions and purchase history before offering product samples. By pre-identifying consumers likely to purchase based on their interaction patterns, the system targets advertisements only to relevant users, avoiding waste of advertising resources and shipping costs on uninterested consumers.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #10Preliminary action

Solution Approach 2:

The system continuously monitors consumer online interactions and uses this feedback to refine targeting accuracy. By analyzing interaction data in real-time and adjusting sample offering strategies accordingly, the system improves consumer engagement while maintaining cost efficiency through increasingly precise targeting.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #23Feedback

2Measurement precision

If product samples are offered based on detailed consumer interaction analysis, then targeting accuracy improves, but system complexity increases

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvetargeting accuracyVSAvoidsystem complexity
Core Design Contradiction:
Measurement precisionVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The system segments consumer data into distinct interaction types and categories, analyzing each segment separately to identify purchase likelihood patterns. By dividing the complex analysis task into manageable segments based on interaction types, the system achieves high targeting accuracy while keeping the computational complexity manageable through modular processing.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #1Segmentation

3Ease of operation

If product samples are offered without considering warehouse location, then consumer satisfaction improves, but shipping costs increase

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveconsumer satisfactionVSAvoidshipping costs
Core Design Contradiction:
Ease of operationVSLoss of energy

Solution Approach 1:

The system applies local quality by matching product samples to consumers based on their geographic location and nearby warehouse positions. By offering samples from locally available inventory rather than shipping from distant warehouses, the system maintains consumer satisfaction through timely delivery while significantly reducing shipping costs through location-aware sample selection.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #3Local quality

Data Source

PatentUS10515389B1Systems and methods for managing product sample advertisements
Publication Date: 2019.12.24 AMAZON TECH INC
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AI summary

According to one or more embodiments of the disclosure, a method is provided. The method may include receiving, by at least one server comprising one or more processors, from a user device, a request for a web page comprising product detail information associated with a focus product identifier. The method may also include receiving an advertisement request associated with the focus product identifier. Furthermore, the method may include determining, based at least in part on the focus product identifier, a product sample identifier associated with a product sample to offer with the product. Additionally, the method may include selecting, based at least in part on the product sample identifier, a product sample advertisement.