Abstract:
An online system receives one or more aggregation rules associated with a third party system that determine online system users' eligibility for receiving content items provided by the third party system using the online system users' behavior. When an online system user performs actions related to content provided by the third party system via a client device, events describing the actions are generated and communicated from the client device to the online system. The online system evaluates a user's eligibility when a user performs an action by applying an aggregation rule to an event corresponding to the user's action and other events associated with the user corresponding to the user's previous actions. The online system may re-evaluate a user's eligibility at a later time if the user is determined to be ineligible. The online system provides content items to eligible users for presentation.
Abstract:
A third party system includes a tracking mechanism in various content provided by the third party system. When a client device presents content provided by the third party system, the client device executes tracking mechanism, causing the client device to communicate information identifying the content, identifying a user associated with the online system, and other information to the online system. Based on the information received from the client device, the online system selects a rule from rules provided to the online system by the third party system. The online system then performs an action included in the selected rule, allowing the advertiser to initiate various actions by the online system while including a common tracking mechanism in different content provided by the third party system.
Abstract:
An online system receives one or more aggregation rules associated with a third party system that determine online system users' eligibility for receiving content items provided by the third party system using the online system users' behavior. When an online system user performs actions related to content provided by the third party system via a client device, events describing the actions are generated and communicated from the client device to the online system. The online system evaluates a user's eligibility when a user performs an action by applying an aggregation rule to an event corresponding to the user's action and other events associated with the user corresponding to the user's previous actions. The online system may re-evaluate a user's eligibility at a later time if the user is determined to be ineligible. The online system provides content items to eligible users for presentation.
Abstract:
An online system receives a plurality of business rules from a third party system, each of which includes one or more conditions for associating a user of the online system with an audience group. The online system generates a decision tree including the business rules. Contextual information describing an interaction between a user of an online system and content of the third party system is received from a client device of the user. The online system determines, using the decision tree, one or more audience groups associated with the user based on a portion of the received contextual information. An advertisement is selected for presentation to the user based on the one or more audience groups associated with the user, and the selected advertisement is provided to the client device of the user.