Social advertisements and other informational messages on a social networking website, and advertising model for same

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United States of America Patent

PATENT NO 8799068
SERIAL NO

12193702

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A social networking website logs information about actions taken by members of the website. For a particular member of the website, the website generates socially relevant ads for the member based on the actions logged for other members on the website to whom the member is connected (i.e., the member's online friends). The advertiser associated with the social ad may compensate the social networking website for publishing the ad on the website. When presenting a member with a social ad, the website may optimize advertising revenue by selecting an ad from the received ads that will maximize the expected value of the social ad. The expected value may be computed according to a function that includes the member's affinity for the ad content and the bid amount. The technique is also applied for providing socially relevant information off the social networking website.

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  • FACEBOOK, INC.

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Inventor(s)

Inventor Name Address # of filed Patents Total Citations
Bosworth, Andrew G Palo Alto, US 41 2280
Cohler, Matthew R Portola Valley, US 10 840
D'Angelo, Adam Menlo Park, US 39 2945
Jin, Robert Kang Xing Palo Alto, US 12 397
Juan, Yun-Fang San Jose, US 23 1712
Kendall, Timothy A San Francisco, US 11 839
Palihapitiya, Chamath M San Francisco, US 12 699
Rosenstein, Justin M Palo Alto, US 19 1426
Wong, Yishan Hillsborough, US 15 1360
Zuckerberg, Mark E Palo Alto, US 90 3436

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