Patents by Inventor Paul Joseph Apodaca

Paul Joseph Apodaca 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: 20190005540
    Abstract: Systems, methods, computer storage media, and user interfaces are provided for providing analytics tools derived from a consumer decision journey model. Once the consumer decision journey for a particular good or service is constructed, a series of tools is provided to help a user understand the return on investment for providing different types of multimedia content at different stages in the consumer decision journey for a particular demographic. To do so, an interface is provided to the user that enables the user to select a desired tool and features of the tool the user wishes to exploit. Browser history from a plurality of consumers is transformed into a visual representation that provides insights into the types of multimedia content that can provide the greatest return on investment for a particular demographic at a particular state in the consumer decision journey for the selected category of goods or services.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 30, 2017
    Publication date: January 3, 2019
    Inventors: Sundarrajan GANAPATHISUBRAMANIAN, Gunyoung HAN, Supratim Roy CHAUDHURY, Karthikeyan ASOKKUMAR, Apurv PANT, Walter SUN, Paul Joseph APODACA, Hung-An CHANG, Mayank SHRIVASTAVA
  • Patent number: 9934510
    Abstract: A system comprises an interface for enabling a user having a web property to input advertisement information including a web property advertisement, criteria indicating when presentation of the advertisement is desired by the user, a bid for the presentation of the advertisement when the criteria are met, and subsequent modifications to the advertisement information; geographically distributed servers, a plurality of the geographically distributed servers for storing the advertisement information, at least one of the geographically distributed servers for receiving a request for advertisement content from an advertising channel, at least one of the geographically distributed servers for determining whether the request meets the criteria, and at least one of the geographically distributed servers for forwarding the advertisement to the advertising channel in response to the request when the criteria have been met; and a distribution component for propagating the advertisement information to the geographically
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 19, 2006
    Date of Patent: April 3, 2018
    Assignee: EXCALIBUR IP, LLC
    Inventors: Robert J. Collins, Scott Melvin Harvester, Paul Joseph Apodaca
  • Patent number: 9558498
    Abstract: The present invention relates to systems and methods for optimizing and managing advertising campaigns. The method of the present invention comprises storing one or more advertisement data structures associated with an ad group data structure in the ad group data structure. One or more ad group data structures associated with a campaign data structure are stored in an ad campaign data structure. Additionally, one or more ad campaign data structures associated with an advertised property are stored in an account data structure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 30, 2005
    Date of Patent: January 31, 2017
    Assignee: EXCALIBUR IP, LLC
    Inventors: Robert J. Collins, Scott Melvin Harvester, Paul Joseph Apodaca
  • Patent number: 9159073
    Abstract: The present invention relates to systems and methods for optimizing and managing advertising campaigns. The method of the present invention comprises storing one or more advertisement data structures associated with an ad group data structure in the ad group data structure. One or more ad group data structures associated with a campaign data structure are stored in an ad campaign data structure. Additionally, one or more ad campaign data structures associated with an advertised property are stored in an account data structure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 24, 2008
    Date of Patent: October 13, 2015
    Assignee: Yahoo! Inc.
    Inventors: Robert J. Collins, Scott Melvin Harvester, Paul Joseph Apodaca
  • Patent number: 8321275
    Abstract: A system and method provide advertisement campaign information about an advertisement campaign to an advertiser. The system includes means for organizing advertisement campaign information into one or more ad groups and a web interface to receive advertiser inputs and provide a visual report including the advertisement campaign information to the advertiser. The system further includes a campaign data store configured to store advertisement campaign account data and a reporting system to produce the visual report about performance of the advertisement campaign. The visual report is based on the organization of the advertisement campaign information into the one or more ad groups.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 28, 2006
    Date of Patent: November 27, 2012
    Assignee: Yahoo! Inc.
    Inventors: Robert J. Collins, Paul Joseph Apodaca, Adam J. Wand, Claude Jones, III
  • Patent number: 8321274
    Abstract: A system and method provide advertisement campaign information about an advertisement campaign to an advertiser. The system includes means for organizing advertisement campaign information into one or more ad groups and a web interface to receive advertiser inputs and provide system alerts about the advertisement campaign information to the advertiser. The system further includes a campaign data store configured to store advertisement campaign account data and an alerting system to produce the system alerts about performance of the advertisement campaign.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 28, 2006
    Date of Patent: November 27, 2012
    Assignee: Yahoo! Inc.
    Inventors: Robert J. Collins, Paul Joseph Apodaca, Adam J. Wand, Claude Jones, III
  • Publication number: 20080270223
    Abstract: Systems and Methods for creating and providing a user interface for displaying advertiser defined groups of advertisement campaign information is disclosed. In one implementation, a quality score associated with an ad group is calculated based at least in part on a historical performance of the ad group. Ad campaign information associated with the ad group is then sent to a user interface for display on the user interface, the advertisement campaign information comprising a graphical representation of the calculated quality score.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 2, 2008
    Publication date: October 30, 2008
    Applicant: Yahoo! Inc.
    Inventors: ROBERT J. COLLINS, PAUL JOSEPH APODACA, ADAM J. WAND, CLAUDE JONES
  • Publication number: 20080255915
    Abstract: The present invention relates to systems and methods for optimizing and managing advertising campaigns. The method of the present invention comprises storing one or more advertisement data structures associated with an ad group data structure in the ad group data structure. One or more ad group data structures associated with a campaign data structure are stored in an ad campaign data structure. Additionally, one or more ad campaign data structures associated with an advertised property are stored in an account data structure.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 24, 2008
    Publication date: October 16, 2008
    Applicant: Yahoo! Inc.
    Inventors: Robert J. Collins, Scott Melvin Harvester, Paul Joseph Apodaca
  • Publication number: 20070027766
    Abstract: A system comprises advertisement channels coupled to a network and disposed in various locations within a region, each channel configured to receive a content request from a visitor of the channel; and advertisement servers coupled to the network and distributed within the region such that each channel has at least one server more proximate than another server, the servers for storing advertisements for web properties, each advertisement associated with criteria indicating when presentation of the advertisement is desired; a given channel for providing request information regarding a content request to a given server; at least one of the servers for determining whether the request information meets any of the criteria; a relatively more proximate server configured to forward an advertisement to the given channel in response to the request information when the criteria have been met, and the given channel for presenting the advertisement in response to the content request.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 25, 2006
    Publication date: February 1, 2007
    Inventors: Robert Collins, Scott Melvin Harvester, Paul Joseph Apodaca