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: 20170223425
    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: March 23, 2017
    Publication date: August 3, 2017
    Inventors: Brendan KITTS, Dyng AU, Alfred LEE
  • Patent number: 9693115
    Abstract: Described herein is a system and method of ad targeting that automatically matches advertisements to media based on the demographic signatures of each. The method and system include calculating a match score between historical buyer demographics and media demographics. Media which is similar to the demographic of the product buyers is targeted for advertising.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 14, 2016
    Date of Patent: June 27, 2017
    Assignee: ADAP.TV, Inc.
    Inventors: Brendan Kitts, Brian Burdick, Dyng Au, Tyson Roberts
  • Patent number: 9674585
    Abstract: Described herein is a system and method of ad targeting that automatically matches advertisements to media based on the demographic signatures of each. The method and system include calculating a match score between historical buyer demographics and media demographics. Media which is similar to the demographic of the product buyers is targeted for advertising.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 15, 2016
    Date of Patent: June 6, 2017
    Assignee: ADAP.TV, Inc.
    Inventors: Brendan Kitts, Brian Burdick, Dyng Au, Tyson Roberts
  • Patent number: 9641882
    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: December 30, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 2, 2017
    Assignee: Adap.TV, Inc.
    Inventors: Brendan Kitts, Dyng Au, Alfred Lee
  • Publication number: 20160345075
    Abstract: Described herein is a system and method of ad targeting that automatically matches advertisements to media based on the demographic signatures of each. The method and system include calculating a match score between historical buyer demographics and media demographics. Media which is similar to the demographic of the product buyers is targeted for advertising.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 15, 2016
    Publication date: November 24, 2016
    Inventors: Brendan KITTS, Brian BURDICK, Dyng AU, Tyson ROBERTS
  • Publication number: 20160345042
    Abstract: Described herein is a system and method of ad targeting that automatically matches advertisements to media based on the demographic signatures of each. The method and system include calculating a match score between historical buyer demographics and media demographics. Media which is similar to the demographic of the product buyers is targeted for advertising.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 14, 2016
    Publication date: November 24, 2016
    Inventors: Brendan KITTS, Brian BURDICK, Dyng AU, Tyson ROBERTS
  • Patent number: 9432714
    Abstract: Described herein is a system and method of ad targeting that automatically matches advertisements to media based on the demographic signatures of each. The method and system include calculating a match score between historical buyer demographics and media demographics. Media which is similar to the demographic of the product buyers is targeted for advertising.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 12, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 30, 2016
    Assignee: ADAP.TV, Inc.
    Inventors: Brendan Kitts, Brian Burdick, Dyng Au, Tyson Roberts
  • Patent number: 9426511
    Abstract: Described herein is a system and method of ad targeting that automatically matches advertisements to media based on the demographic signatures of each. The method and system include calculating a match score between historical buyer demographics and media demographics. Media which is similar to the demographic of the product buyers is targeted for advertising.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 3, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 23, 2016
    Assignee: ADAP.TV, Inc.
    Inventors: Brendan Kitts, Brian Burdick, Dyng Au, Tyson Roberts
  • Publication number: 20160037197
    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 4, 2015
    Publication date: February 4, 2016
    Inventors: Brendan KITTS, Dyng AU, Jon BORCHARDT
  • Publication number: 20160037201
    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 4, 2015
    Publication date: February 4, 2016
    Inventors: Brendan KITTS, Dyng AU, Sih Huseyin ULGER
  • Publication number: 20150382040
    Abstract: Described herein is a system and method of ad targeting that automatically matches advertisements to media based on the demographic signatures of each. The method and system include calculating a match score between historical buyer demographics and media demographics. Media which is similar to the demographic of the product buyers is targeted for advertising.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 3, 2015
    Publication date: December 31, 2015
    Inventors: Brendan KITTS, Brian BURDICK, Dyng AU, Tyson ROBERTS
  • Publication number: 20150341684
    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 22, 2015
    Publication date: November 26, 2015
    Inventors: Brendan KITTS, Dyng AU, Michael BARDARO, Sawin LEE, Alfred LEE
  • Patent number: 9161099
    Abstract: Described herein is a system and method of ad targeting that automatically matches advertisements to media based on the demographic signatures of each. The method and system include calculating a match score between historical buyer demographics and media demographics. Media which is similar to the demographic of the product buyers is targeted for advertising.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 21, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 13, 2015
    Assignee: Lucid Commerce, Inc.
    Inventors: Brendan Kitts, Brian Burdick, Dyng Au, Tyson Roberts
  • Publication number: 20150281803
    Abstract: Described herein is a system and method of ad targeting that automatically matches advertisements to media based on the demographic signatures of each. The method and system include calculating a match score between historical buyer demographics and media demographics. Media which is similar to the demographic of the product buyers is targeted for advertising.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 12, 2015
    Publication date: October 1, 2015
    Inventors: Brendan KITTS, Brian BURDICK, Dyng AU, Tyson ROBERTS
  • Patent number: 9088833
    Abstract: Described herein is a system and method of ad targeting that automatically matches advertisements to media based on the demographic signatures of each. The method and system include calculating a match score between historical buyer demographics and media demographics. Media which is similar to the demographic of the product buyers is targeted for advertising.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 26, 2013
    Date of Patent: July 21, 2015
    Assignee: LUCID COMMERCE, INC.
    Inventors: Brendan Kitts, Brian Burdick, Dyng Au, Tyson Roberts
  • Publication number: 20150189351
    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: December 30, 2014
    Publication date: July 2, 2015
    Inventors: Brendan KITTS, Dyng AU, Alfred LEE
  • Publication number: 20150089540
    Abstract: Described herein is a system and method of ad targeting that automatically matches advertisements to media based on the demographic signatures of each. The method and system include calculating a match score between historical buyer demographics and media demographics. Media which is similar to the demographic of the product buyers is targeted for advertising.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 21, 2014
    Publication date: March 26, 2015
    Inventors: Brendan KITTS, Brian BURDICK, Dyng AU, Tyson ROBERTS
  • Publication number: 20140316883
    Abstract: This paper presents a practical method for measuring the impact of multiple marketing events on sales, including marketing events that are not traditionally trackable. The technique infers which of several competing media events are likely to have caused a given conversion. The method is tested using hold-out sets, and also a live media experiment for determining whether the method can accurately predict television-generated web conversions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 1, 2014
    Publication date: October 23, 2014
    Inventors: Brendan KITTS, Brian BURDICK, Dyng AU, Liang WEI, Amanda POWTER
  • Publication number: 20140289765
    Abstract: Described herein is a system and method of ad targeting that automatically matches advertisements to media based on the demographic signatures of each. The method and system include calculating a match score between historical buyer demographics and media demographics. Media which is similar to the demographic of the product buyers is targeted for advertising.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 26, 2013
    Publication date: September 25, 2014
    Applicant: Lucid Commerce, Inc.
    Inventors: Brendan Kitts, Brian Burdick, Dyng Au, Tyson Roberts
  • Patent number: 8789092
    Abstract: Described herein is a system and method of ad targeting that automatically matches advertisements to media based on the demographic signatures of each. The method and system include calculating a match score between historical buyer demographics and media demographics. Media which is similar to the demographic of the product buyers is targeted for advertising.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 12, 2011
    Date of Patent: July 22, 2014
    Assignee: Lucid Commerce, Inc.
    Inventors: Brendan Kitts, Brian Burdick, Dyng Au, Tyson Roberts