IP Library Granted Patent US 8,898,071
Granted Patent B2
US 8,898,071 · App. 12/628,492 · Granted Nov 25, 2014

System and method for managing and optimizing advertising networks

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Patent No.
US 8,898,071
App. No.
12/628,492
Granted
Nov 25, 2014
Kind
B2
Abstract

The system of the present invention is used to execute data consolidation to combine data from Google, MSN and Yahoo, at least. The user does not need anymore to combine by himself data in spreadsheets. The system allows creating consolidated campaigns that span across search providers, letting the user effortlessly build reports that previously took hours to create each month. The system of the present invention is particularly suited for agencies. A tool designed for agencies needs to allow for management at the client level as well as the agency level. The system client center gives each member of the team a summary view of the client accounts that they're responsible for, along with emerging trend indicators for every major metric.

Claims (77)

1. A method for managing the buying of online advertisement and optimizing at least one buying metric of at least one advertising campaign on at least one advertising provider comprising the steps to:

a) buy at least one advertisement from at least one advertising provider and associate the at least one bought advertisement with the at least one advertising campaign;

b) retrieve data and the at least one bought advertisement relating to at least one advertising campaign from at least one advertising provider;

c) select at least one advertising campaign from the at least one retrieved advertising campaign;

d) search and apply at least one filter on the at least one selected advertising campaign;

e) display the at least one filtered selected advertising campaign information data to a user.

2. A method for managing the buying of online advertisement and optimizing at least one metric of at least one advertising campaign on at least one advertising provider as described in claim 1 wherein the at least one advertising campaign is linked with an advertising provider account.

3. A method for managing the buying of online advertisement and optimizing at least one metric of at least one advertising campaign on at least one advertising provider as described in claim 1 wherein the method further comprises steps to:

a) execute at least one operation on the at least one selected advertising campaign;

b) validate the at least one operation on the at least one selected advertising campaign;

c) create a bid management rule to apply to at least one selected advertising campaign;

d) manage at least one existing bid management rule.

4. A method for managing the buying of online advertisement and optimizing at least one metric of at least one advertising campaign on at least one advertising provider as described in claim 3 wherein the creation of a bid management rule comprises the steps to create a rule from an existing rule template.

5. A method for managing the buying of online advertisement and optimizing at least one metric of at least one advertising campaign on at least one advertising provider as described in claim 3 wherein the creation of a bid management rule is executed through a rule builder comprising the steps to:

a) set the rule parameters;

b) define the at least one advertising campaign to which the rule shall be applied;

c) preview the results of the rule application to the at least one defined advertising campaign;

d) activate the created rule.

6. A method for managing the buying of advertisement and optimizing at least one metric of at least one advertising campaign on at least one advertising provider as described in claim 5 wherein the rule parameters comprises a target position, a bid increment, a maximum bid and an alert flag.

7. A method for managing the buying of online advertisement and optimizing at least one metric of at least one advertising campaign on at least one advertising provider as described in claim 3 wherein the management of a bid management rule comprises at least on of the steps to:

edit at least one bid management rule;

delete at least one bid management rule;

copy at least one bid management rule to at least one other advertising provider; and

deactivate at least one bid management rule.

8. A method for managing the buying of online advertisement and optimizing at least one metric of at least one advertising campaign on at least one advertising provider as described in claim 3 wherein the method further comprises at least one of the steps to:

display pending bid changes to at least one bid management rule; and

log at least one change to the bid management rules.

9. A method for managing the buying of online advertisement and optimizing at least one metric of at least one advertising campaign on at least one advertising provider as described in claim 3 wherein the at least one operation comprises at least one of the following operations:

creating a new advertising campaign within one or more advertising provider;

updating an existing advertising campaign within one or more advertising provider;

copying at least one existing advertising campaign to at least one other advertising provider;

deleting at least one existing advertising campaign; and

creating a new advertisement within one or more advertising campaign.

10. A method for managing the buying of online advertisement and optimizing at least one metric of at least one advertising campaign on at least one advertising provider as described in claim 9 wherein the at least one operation further comprises at least one of the following operations:

creating a new advertisement within one or more advertising campaign;

updating at least one existing advertisement within one or more advertising campaign;

copying at least one existing advertisement within one or more advertising campaign to at least one other advertising provider; and

deleting at least one existing advertisement within at least one advertising campaign.

11. A method for managing the buying of online advertisement and optimizing at least one metric of at least one advertising campaign on at least one advertising provider as described in claim 9 wherein the at least one operation further comprises at least one of the following operations:

optimizing the buying of advertisement for at least one advertising campaign;

generating at least one consolidated report for at least one advertising campaign managed by one or more advertising provider;

building at least one of a custom graph, a custom table and a custom chart based on data from at least one advertising campaign; and

creating a new consolidated advertising campaign that spread across more than one advertising campaign provider.

12. A method for managing the buying of online advertisement and optimizing at least one metric of at least one advertising campaign on at least one advertising provider as described in claim 11 wherein the generation of at least one consolidated optimization of the buying of advertisement for at least one advertising campaign allows at least one of the followings:

to maximize at least one advertising campaign metric;

to minimize at least one advertising campaign metric;

to simulate the predicted effects of a change to an advertising campaign metric;

to choose the maintenance level of at least one advertising campaign metric; and

to analyze historical account data to determine the performance of at least one selected advertisement.

13. A system for managing the buying of online advertisement and optimizing at least one metric of at least one advertising campaign on at least one advertising provider comprising:

a) a server configured:

i) to manage at least one campaign entity;

ii) to communicate with at least one advertising provider application programming interface;

b) at least one client device comprising:

i) a campaign elements loader configured to load at least one campaign element into a client device memory;

ii) a module configured to search and apply at least one filter to a selection of advertising campaigns;

iii) at least one validator configured to validate at least one operation executed on a selection of advertising campaigns;

iv) an in-memory storage manager configured to manage the campaign elements loaded into the client device memory;

v) at least one entity creation and edition module configured to execute at least one operation on at least one campaign element;

wherein the at least one advertising campaign comprises at least one advertisement bought from at least one provider.

14. A system for managing the buying of online advertisement and optimizing at least one metric of at least one advertising campaign on at least one advertising provider as described in claim 13 wherein the at least one operation executed on the at least one campaign element comprises at least one of the following operations:

creating a new advertising campaign element within one or more advertising campaign provider;

updating an existing advertising campaign element within one or more advertising campaign provider;

copying at least one existing advertising campaign element to at least one other advertising campaign provider;

deleting at least one existing advertising campaign element; and

creating a new advertisement within one or more advertising campaign element.

15. A system for managing the buying of online advertisement and optimizing at least one metric of at least one advertising campaign on at least one advertising provider as described in claim 14 wherein the at least one operation executed on the at least one campaign element further comprises at least one of the following operations:

creating a new advertisement within one or more advertising campaign element;

setting the maximum price to be paid for each advertisement to be bought by a user;

updating at least one existing advertisement within one or more advertising campaign element;

copying at least one existing advertisement within one or more advertising campaign element to at least one other advertising campaign provider; and

deleting at least one existing advertisement within at least one advertisement campaign.

16. A system for managing the buying of online advertisement and optimizing at least one metric of at least one advertising campaign on at least one advertising provider as described in claim 15 wherein the at least one operation executed on the at least one campaign element further comprises at least one of the following operations:

optimizing at least one advertising campaign element;

generating at least one consolidated report for at least one advertising campaign element;

building at least one of a custom graph, a custom table and a custom chart based on data from at least one advertising campaign managed by one or more advertising provider; and

creating a new consolidated advertising campaign element that spreads across more than one advertising campaign provider.

Assignments (7)
SUPERPRIORITY INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY SECURITY AGREEMENT Recorded Dec 17, 2025
From: MARKMONITOR INC.; NETWORK SOLUTIONS, LLC; NEWFOLD DIGITAL, INC.; A SMALL ORANGE, LLC; BLUEHOST INC.; HOSTGATOR.COM LLC; P.D.R SOLUTIONS (U.S.) LLC; MONSTERCOMMERCE, LLC
To: WILMINGTON SAVINGS FUND SOCIETY, FSB, AS COLLATERAL AGENT
Reel/Frame 073963/0121 →
SUPERPRIORITY INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY SECURITY AGREEMENT Recorded Dec 17, 2025
From: MARKMONITOR INC.; NETWORK SOLUTIONS, LLC; NEWFOLD DIGITAL, INC.; A SMALL ORANGE, LLC; BLUEHOST INC.; HOSTGATOR.COM LLC; P.D.R SOLUTIONS (U.S.) LLC; MONSTERCOMMERCE, LLC
To: WILMINGTON TRUST, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION, AS COLLATERAL AGENT
Reel/Frame 073963/0186 →
MERGER Recorded Jun 18, 2025
From: WEB.COM GROUP, INC.
To: NETWORK SOLUTIONS, LLC
Reel/Frame 071446/0586 →
FIRST LIEN GRANT OF SECURITY INTEREST IN PATENTS Recorded Oct 18, 2023
From: NEWFOLD DIGITAL, INC.; NETWORK SOLUTIONS, LLC; WEB.COM GROUP, INC.; MARKMONITOR INC.
To: WILMINGTON TRUST, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION, AS NOTES COLLATERAL AGENT
Reel/Frame 065268/0277 →
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Oct 2, 2018
From: ACQUISIO INC.
To: WEB.COM GROUP, INC.
Reel/Frame 047175/0032 →
SECURITY INTEREST Recorded Aug 11, 2016
From: ACQUISIO INC
To: WF FUND V LIMITED PARTNERSHIP
Reel/Frame 039658/0796 →
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Feb 16, 2010
From: POIRIER, MARC; COUTURE, RICHARD
To: ACQUISIO INC.
Reel/Frame 023942/0407 →