公开(公告)号：US11295343B1

公开(公告)日：2022-04-05

申请号：US14983671

申请日：2015-12-30

Applicant: GROUPON, INC.

Inventor： David Gómez-Rosado

IPC: G06Q30/02

Abstract: A method, apparatus, and computer program product are disclosed for automatically generating group promotions. An example apparatus includes context collection circuitry configured to collect contextual data, and group identification circuitry configured to identify an ad-hoc group of consumer devices based on the collected contextual data. The example apparatus further includes a processor configured to determine a group intention associated with the ad-hoc group of consumer devices, and communications circuitry configured to broadcast a group promotion request based on the ad-hoc group of consumer devices and the group intention.

公开(公告)号：US11276089B1

公开(公告)日：2022-03-15

申请号：US16228485

申请日：2018-12-20

Applicant: Groupon, Inc.

Inventor： Mazeiar Salehie ,  Clovis Aurius Chapman

IPC: G06Q30/00 ,  G06Q30/02 ,  G06N20/00 ,  G06F16/28

Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure provide methods, systems, apparatuses, and computer program products for adaptively generating an electronic bid value for a tail digital content object.

公开(公告)号：US11276082B1

公开(公告)日：2022-03-15

申请号：US14983838

申请日：2015-12-30

Applicant: Groupon, Inc.

Inventor： Shihua Sun ,  James Violette ,  Mahmoud Abdelwareth ,  Anthony Joseph

IPC: G06Q30/02 ,  H04L12/58 ,  G06Q10/06 ,  H04L51/222 ,  H04L51/00

Abstract: Systems, methods, and computer readable storage media for controlling the transmission of electronic messages are provided. Aspects of the disclosure provide a method for controlling electronic transmission of electronic communications generated by authoring services. The method includes receiving a first message from a first authoring service of the plurality of authoring services, the first message comprising at least one recipient and content for at least one electronic communication, adding the first message to a message queue associated with the at least one recipient, determining one or more characteristics associated with the at least one recipient, evaluating the first message using the one or more characteristics to determine a first message state for the first message, in response to determining that the message state indicates the first message is to be transmitted, forwarding the first message to message transmission circuitry, and transmitting the first message to the recipient.

公开(公告)号：US11263658B1

公开(公告)日：2022-03-01

申请号：US14301034

申请日：2014-06-10

Applicant: Groupon, Inc.

Inventor： Rebecca Abigail Resnick Kossnick

IPC: G06Q30/00 ,  G06Q30/02

Abstract: Systems and methods are presented for determining non-promotion content to include in an electronic promotion correspondence sent to a consumer. A promotion program offering system may access a set of promotions generated for a target consumer and determine the effect of presenting non-promotion content with one or more of the promotions. The promotion program offering system may determine selected promotions and/or non-promotion content to include in the electronic promotion correspondence according to any number of criteria, e.g., to maximize the probability the target consumer purchases one or more promotions in the electronic promotion correspondence.

公开(公告)号：US11263620B2

公开(公告)日：2022-03-01

申请号：US16196918

申请日：2018-11-20

Applicant: GROUPON, INC.

Inventor： Andrey Zaytzsev ,  Ulf Schwekendiek ,  Tuomas Artman

IPC: G06Q20/36 ,  G06Q20/20 ,  G06Q20/32 ,  G06Q20/38 ,  G06Q20/40

Abstract: Systems and related methods for facilitating payments via a consumer device carried by a consumer are discussed herein. Wallet identifying tokens may be used to secure messages between the consumer device and the merchant device over a wireless link. For example, the merchant device may include circuitry configured to wirelessly receive a wallet identifying token from a consumer device and to transmit the wallet identifying token to the central system. In response, consumer identifying data associated with the wallet identifying token may be received by the merchant device from the central system. In some embodiments, payments may be secured via limiting the lifetime of wallet identifying tokens after initial use.

公开(公告)号：US11257124B2

公开(公告)日：2022-02-22

申请号：US16265087

申请日：2019-02-01

Applicant: Groupon, Inc.

Inventor： Gaston L'Huillier ,  Francisco Larrain ,  Kamson Lai ,  Amit Koren

IPC: G06Q30/02

Abstract: Provided herein are system, methods and computer readable storage media in facilitating the determination of provider parameters, such as a provider margin, for a promotion of the provider's goods, services, and/or the like in an agreement between the provider, also known as a merchant, and a promotion and marketing service that is configured to illustrate or otherwise inform consumers of the availability of one or more instruments for a promotion. In providing such functionality, the system may be configured to, for example, receive provider characteristic data, determine historical provider information, receive provider promotion structure data, determine a provider profile, determine a positive return on investment threshold, and transmit a provider parameter.

公开(公告)号：US11252131B2

公开(公告)日：2022-02-15

申请号：US17247535

申请日：2020-12-15

Applicant: Groupon, Inc.

Inventor： Karthik Paulramachandran ,  Rajeev Kumar ,  Ganesh Angappan ,  Ramya J

IPC: H04L29/06 ,  H04L12/58

Abstract: A method, apparatus, and computer program product are disclosed for facilitating two-way email communication in manner that obfuscates sender and recipient email addresses. The method includes receiving a correspondence request indication; assigning a first transaction address to a sender and a second transaction address to a recipient; receiving a message from the sender; associating the message from the sender with the first transaction address; and causing a transmission of the message from the sender to the recipient using the first transaction address. A corresponding apparatus and computer program product are also provided.

公开(公告)号：US11250472B2

公开(公告)日：2022-02-15

申请号：US17062209

申请日：2020-10-02

Applicant: GROUPON, INC.

Inventor： Don Albert Chennavasin ,  Lawrence Lee Wai ,  Hamish Barney ,  Devdatta Gangal ,  Daniel Beard ,  Valampuri Lakshminarayanan ,  Michael Burton

IPC: G06Q30/02

Abstract: A computer-executable method, a computer system and a non-transitory computer-readable medium are provided for causing electronic marketing communications of one or more promotions to be generated on a mobile computing device associated with a consumer. A method includes programmatically retrieving promotion data indicative of a plurality of promotions from a computer memory. The method includes determining, using processing circuitry, a promotion score for each of the plurality of promotions. Each promotion score is determined based on consumer profile data, stored consumer activity data, and at least one of: current consumer activity data, current local context data, or predicted consumer activity data. The method further includes outputting indications configured to generate electronic marketing communications associated with the plurality of promotions based on the promotion scores of the plurality of promotions.

公开(公告)号：US11244328B2

公开(公告)日：2022-02-08

申请号：US16660517

申请日：2019-10-22

Applicant: Groupon, Inc.

Inventor： Shawn Ryan Jeffery ,  Nick Pendar ,  Richard Clark Barber

IPC: G06Q30/02 ,  G06F16/951 ,  G06Q10/06

Abstract: In general, embodiments of the present invention provide systems, methods and computer readable media for identifying a new business based on programmatically analyzing content received from online sources and, as a result, discovering one or more references to the business. In embodiments, the system stores historical data representing previously identified new businesses and then uses attributes of those businesses in search queries to receive related content. Additionally or alternatively, the system stores data representing online sources that historically provided content containing references to new businesses and then continues to access those sources for additional content. In embodiments, the system performs content analysis on structured and/or unstructured content. In some embodiments, analysis of content received from a particular online source includes a source-specific algorithm that takes a source-specific representation of the content as input and produces a result indicating the likelihood that the content includes a new business reference.

公开(公告)号：US20220036331A1

公开(公告)日：2022-02-03

申请号：US17375295

申请日：2021-07-14

Applicant: Groupon, Inc.

Inventor： Geoffrey Hubert Woo ,  Mahmudul Arefin Din ,  Robert James Skillington ,  Michael Chen ,  Tihomir Tsankov Georgiev

IPC: G06Q20/20 ,  G06Q20/22 ,  H04W40/24 ,  G06Q20/32 ,  G06Q20/04 ,  G06Q20/06 ,  G06Q20/30

Abstract: Systems, apparatus, methods, and non-transitory media for programmatically grouping consumers are discussed herein. Some embodiments may include a point-of-sale system including a merchant device and one or more communication beacons. The communication beacons may be placed at locations of interest and may be configured to broadcast different beacon identifiers. Nearby consumer devices that receive the beacon identifier may be determined to be associated with a point-of-sale order and suitable point-of-sale functionality may be provided. In some embodiments, a peer consumer device may be selected as an ad hoc communication beacon for broadcasting a beacon identifier to other consumer devices.