Patents by Inventor Joseph W Epperson

Joseph W Epperson 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).

  • Patent number: 8788326
    Abstract: A system for handling multiple simultaneous campaigns that improves advertisement performance through shape based targeting and real-time impression acquisition is disclosed. According to one embodiment, a computer-implemented method comprises receiving a bid request, creating a possible advertisement set based on the bid request, filtering the possible advertisement set to produce a reduced advertisement set, creating one or more tradezones. Creating a tradezone comprises clustering data sets according to one or more of offline data, online data, and geographic distribution of a plurality of IP addresses to form custom shapes, and mapping the custom shapes to the plurality of IP addresses. Remaining advertisements are targeted in the reduced advertisement set, wherein remaining advertisements are targeted based on a selected tradezone, and wherein the selected tradezone is selected based upon a set of parameters representative of a desired audience.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 28, 2010
    Date of Patent: July 22, 2014
    Assignee: Maxpoint Interactive, Inc.
    Inventors: Joseph W Epperson, Kurt M Carlson, Christopher R Farmer