Patents by Inventor Brendan Kitts

Brendan Kitts has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Publication number: 20200336777
    Abstract: A method of targeting of advertising content for a consumer product is disclosed. The method comprises obtaining consumer demographic data from a first server over a network, the consumer demographic data including a plurality of demographic attributes for each person among a plurality of persons; obtaining product purchaser data for a plurality of product purchasers of the consumer product from a second server over the network, each product purchaser among the plurality of product purchasers being among the plurality of persons; and enriching the purchaser data with the consumer demographic data. The method further comprises enriching viewing data with consumer demographic data; and selecting viewed media among the aggregated viewed media having the highest similarity to the product purchasers as target media for the advertising content.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 2, 2020
    Publication date: October 22, 2020
    Inventors: Brendan KITTS, Dyng AU, Sih Huseyin ULGER
  • Patent number: 10743054
    Abstract: A method of targeting of advertising content for a consumer product is disclosed. The method comprises obtaining consumer demographic data from a first server over a network, the consumer demographic data including a plurality of demographic attributes for each person among a plurality of persons; obtaining product purchaser data for a plurality of product purchasers of the consumer product from a second server over the network, each product purchaser among the plurality of product purchasers being among the plurality of persons; and enriching the purchaser data with the consumer demographic data. The method further comprises enriching viewing data with consumer demographic data; and selecting viewed media among the aggregated viewed media having the highest similarity to the product purchasers as target media for the advertising content.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 7, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 11, 2020
    Assignee: ADAP.TV, Inc.
    Inventors: Brendan Kitts, Dyng Au, Sih Huseyin Ulger
  • Publication number: 20200145708
    Abstract: Systems and methods are disclosed for targeting of advertising content for a consumer product, by obtaining consumer demographic data, the consumer demographic data including a plurality of demographic attributes for each person; identifying a plurality of media slots; and obtaining program information for a respective identified program aired in each media slot among the plurality of media slots, the program information including viewing data of a plurality of viewing persons viewing the program and each viewing person being among the plurality of persons.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 3, 2020
    Publication date: May 7, 2020
    Inventors: Brendan KITTS, Dyng AU, Jon BORCHARDT
  • Publication number: 20200090191
    Abstract: A processing device selects a population of persons and measures sales metrics from the population over a time period and measures an advertising weight over the time period. The processing device determines an effect that the advertising weight has on the sales metrics and additionally calculates values for a degree of targetedness for the advertisement to the population of persons. The processing device determines an effect that the degree of targetedness has on the sales metrics and generates a multi-dimensional model that measures the combined effects of the advertising weight and the degree of targetedness on the sales metrics.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 7, 2019
    Publication date: March 19, 2020
    Inventors: Brendan KITTS, Dyng AU, Brian Burdick, Alfred LEE, Amanda Powter, John Sobieski
  • Patent number: 10567820
    Abstract: Systems and methods are disclosed for targeting of advertising content for a consumer product, by obtaining consumer demographic data, the consumer demographic data including a plurality of demographic attributes for each person; identifying a plurality of media slots; and obtaining program information for a respective identified program aired in each media slot among the plurality of media slots, the program information including viewing data of a plurality of viewing persons viewing the program and each viewing person being among the plurality of persons.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 31, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 18, 2020
    Assignee: ADAP.TV, Inc.
    Inventors: Brendan Kitts, Dyng Au, Jon Borchardt
  • Publication number: 20200053407
    Abstract: A processing device receives set-top box data, sales data, and advertising data. The processing device associates set-top boxes from the set-top box data with viewers and calculates advertising exposure events for advertisements. The processing device further calculates, for each viewer, an advertising weight as a function of number of exposures of the advertisement as applied to the viewer based on the advertising exposure events. The processing device further calculates, for each viewer, a score representing a degree-of-targetedness between an advertisement campaign and the viewer. The processing device manages the advertisement campaign based on the advertising weight and the degree-of-targetedness.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 18, 2019
    Publication date: February 13, 2020
    Inventors: Brendan KITTS, Dyng AU, Brian Burdick
  • Patent number: 10521808
    Abstract: A processing device selects a population of persons and measures sales metrics from the population over a time period and measures an advertising weight over the time period. The processing device determines an effect that the advertising weight has on the sales metrics and additionally calculates values for a degree of targetedness for the advertisement to the population of persons. The processing device determines an effect that the degree of targetedness has on the sales metrics and generates a multi-dimensional model that measures the combined effects of the advertising weight and the degree of targetedness on the sales metrics.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 4, 2013
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2019
    Assignee: ADAP.TV, Inc.
    Inventors: Brendan Kitts, Dyng Au, Brian Burdick, Al Lee, Amanda Powter, John Sobieski
  • Patent number: 10499099
    Abstract: A processing device receives set-top box data, sales data, and advertising data. The processing device associates set-top boxes from the set-top box data with viewers and calculates advertising exposure events for advertisements. The processing device further calculates, for each viewer, an advertising weight as a function of number of exposures of the advertisement as applied to the viewer based on the advertising exposure events. The processing device further calculates, for each viewer, a score representing a degree-of-targetedness between an advertisement campaign and the viewer. The processing device manages the advertisement campaign based on the advertising weight and the degree-of-targetedness.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 4, 2013
    Date of Patent: December 3, 2019
    Assignee: ADAP.TV, Inc.
    Inventors: Brendan Kitts, Dyng Au, Brian Burdick
  • Publication number: 20190364320
    Abstract: A method of targeting of advertising content for a consumer product is disclosed. The method comprises obtaining consumer demographic data from a first server over a network, the consumer demographic data including a plurality of demographic attributes for each person among a plurality of persons; obtaining product purchaser data for a plurality of product purchasers of the consumer product from a second server over the network, each product purchaser among the plurality of product purchasers being among the plurality of persons; and enriching the purchaser data with the consumer demographic data. The method further comprises enriching viewing data with consumer demographic data; and selecting viewed media among the aggregated viewed media having the highest similarity to the product purchasers as target media for the advertising content.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 7, 2019
    Publication date: November 28, 2019
    Inventors: Brendan KITTS, Dyng AU, Sih Huseyin ULGER
  • Publication number: 20190342629
    Abstract: Television is the largest advertising category in the United States with over 65 billion spent by advertisers per year. A variety of different targeting algorithms are compared, ranging from the traditional age-gender targeting methods employed based on Nielsen ratings, to new approaches that attempt to target high probability buyers using Set Top Box data. The performance of these different algorithms on a real television campaign is shown, and the advantages and limitations of each method are discussed. In contrast to other theoretical work, all methods presented herein are compatible with targeting the existing 115 million Television households in the United States and are implementable on current television delivery systems.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 12, 2019
    Publication date: November 7, 2019
    Inventors: Brendan KITTS, Dyng AU, Alfred LEE
  • Patent number: 10425674
    Abstract: A method of targeting of advertising content for a consumer product is disclosed. The method comprises obtaining consumer demographic data from a first server over a network, the consumer demographic data including a plurality of demographic attributes for each person among a plurality of persons; obtaining product purchaser data for a plurality of product purchasers of the consumer product from a second server over the network, each product purchaser among the plurality of product purchasers being among the plurality of persons; and enriching the purchaser data with the consumer demographic data. The method further comprises enriching viewing data with consumer demographic data; and selecting viewed media among the aggregated viewed media having the highest similarity to the product purchasers as target media for the advertising content.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 4, 2015
    Date of Patent: September 24, 2019
    Assignee: ADAP.TV, Inc.
    Inventors: Brendan Kitts, Dyng Au, Sih Huseyin Ulger
  • Publication number: 20190273961
    Abstract: Systems and methods are disclosed that measure web activity bursts after ad broadcasts that may be sent to multiple persons. One system uses a cookie-less/cookie-optional, anonymous/personal-identification-not-required, method for web-based conversion tracking that will work on broadcast media systems such as television, and could also be applied to measuring spikes from email, radio, and other forms of advertising where an episodic ad event is broadcast to multiple parties, and where responses occur in a batch after the broadcast.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 17, 2019
    Publication date: September 5, 2019
    Inventors: Brendan KITTS, Dyng AU, Michael BARDARO, Sawin LEE, Alfred LEE
  • Patent number: 10405057
    Abstract: Television is the largest advertising category in the United States with over 65 billion spent by advertisers per year. A variety of different targeting algorithms are compared, ranging from the traditional age-gender targeting methods employed based on Nielsen ratings, to new approaches that attempt to target high probability buyers using Set Top Box data. The performance of these different algorithms on a real television campaign is shown, and the advantages and limitations of each method are discussed. In contrast to other theoretical work, all methods presented herein are compatible with targeting the existing 115 million Television households in the United States and are implementable on current television delivery systems.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 25, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 3, 2019
    Assignee: ADAPT.TV, Inc.
    Inventors: Brendan Kitts, Dyng Au, Alfred Lee
  • Patent number: 10334299
    Abstract: Systems and methods are disclosed that measure web activity bursts after ad broadcasts that may be sent to multiple persons. One system uses a cookie-less/cookie-optional, anonymous/personal-identification-not-required, method for web-based conversion tracking that will work on broadcast media systems such as television, and could also be applied to measuring spikes from email, radio, and other forms of advertising where an episodic ad event is broadcast to multiple parties, and where responses occur in a batch after the broadcast.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 22, 2015
    Date of Patent: June 25, 2019
    Assignee: ADAP.TV, Inc.
    Inventors: Brendan Kitts, Dyng Au, Michael Bardaro, Sawin Lee, Alfred Lee
  • Publication number: 20180376186
    Abstract: Systems and methods are disclosed for targeting of advertising content for a consumer product, by obtaining consumer demographic data, the consumer demographic data including a plurality of demographic attributes for each person; identifying a plurality of media slots; and obtaining program information for a respective identified program aired in each media slot among the plurality of media slots, the program information including viewing data of a plurality of viewing persons viewing the program and each viewing person being among the plurality of persons.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 31, 2018
    Publication date: December 27, 2018
    Inventors: Brendan KITTS, Dyng AU, Jon BORCHARDT
  • Patent number: 10104411
    Abstract: Systems and methods are disclosed for targeting of advertising content for a consumer product, by obtaining consumer demographic data, the consumer demographic data including a plurality of demographic attributes for each person; identifying a plurality of media slots; and obtaining program information for a respective identified program aired in each media slot among the plurality of media slots, the program information including viewing data of a plurality of viewing persons viewing the program and each viewing person being among the plurality of persons.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 4, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 16, 2018
    Assignee: ADAP.TV, Inc.
    Inventors: Brendan Kitts, Dyng Au, Jon Borchardt
  • Publication number: 20180152766
    Abstract: Television is the largest advertising category in the United States with over 65 billion spent by advertisers per year. A variety of different targeting algorithms are compared, ranging from the traditional age-gender targeting methods employed based on Nielsen ratings, to new approaches that attempt to target high probability buyers using Set Top Box data. The performance of these different algorithms on a real television campaign is shown, and the advantages and limitations of each method are discussed. In contrast to other theoretical work, all methods presented herein are compatible with targeting the existing 115 million Television households in the United States and are implementable on current television delivery systems.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 25, 2018
    Publication date: May 31, 2018
    Inventors: Brendan KITTS, Dyng AU, Alfred LEE
  • Publication number: 20180108049
    Abstract: The present disclosure describes a system that attempts to reconcile diverse goals and re-cast the goals into something that is quantifiable and optimizable. One way to reconcile diverse goals is by converting these “constraints”—with the huge problems of feasibility—into errors that can be minimized. This disclosure also presents solutions for rate constraints which previously have not been dealt with. The resulting system enables advertisers to dynamically adjust their campaign based on the needs of the moment. Such a system can have advantages in terms of controllability, smoothness, as well as avoiding hard stop conditions that plague the constraint-based approach. In order to achieve this result, solutions are presented for problems of pacing, viewability prediction, and most particularly, error minimization.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 13, 2017
    Publication date: April 19, 2018
    Inventors: Brendan Kitts, Garrett James Badeau, Michael Krishnan, Yongbo Zeng, Ishadulta Yadav, Ruofeng Chen, Andrew George Potter, Liang Wei, Ethan James Thornburg, Sergey Tolkachov
  • Publication number: 20180082325
    Abstract: Systems and methods are disclosed for demographic prediction based on aggregated training data. The predictions are based on auditing aggregated data associated with identified properties of web requests. The audited information is based on a batch of prior web requests that have the same property and have been audited by a measurement company.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 16, 2016
    Publication date: March 22, 2018
    Inventors: Brendan Kitts, Garrett James Badeau, Davood Shamsi, Yongbo Zeng, Liang Wei, Andrew George Potter, Sergei Tolkachov
  • Patent number: 9918142
    Abstract: Television is the largest advertising category in the United States with over 65 billion spent by advertisers per year. A variety of different targeting algorithms are compared, ranging from the traditional age-gender targeting methods employed based on Nielsen ratings, to new approaches that attempt to target high probability buyers using Set Top Box data. The performance of these different algorithms on a real television campaign is shown, and the advantages and limitations of each method are discussed. In contrast to other theoretical work, all methods presented herein are compatible with targeting the existing 115 million Television households in the United States and are implementable on current television delivery systems.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 23, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 13, 2018
    Assignee: Adap.TV, Inc.
    Inventors: Brendan Kitts, Dyng Au, Alfred Lee