Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Cross-device geolocation sensing to geotarget offers
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Application No.: US15421986Application Date: 2017-02-01
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Publication No.: US10318992B2Publication Date: 2019-06-11
- Inventor: Brian Keith Showers , Eithan Zilkha
- Applicant: RetailMeNot, Inc.
- Applicant Address: US TX Austin
- Assignee: RetailMeNot, Inc.
- Current Assignee: RetailMeNot, Inc.
- Current Assignee Address: US TX Austin
- Agency: Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP
- Main IPC: G06Q30/02
- IPC: G06Q30/02 ; G01S5/02 ; H04W4/02

Abstract:
Provided is a process of distributing offers to non-location-sensing devices based on a geolocation sensed by another device, the process comprising: obtaining a geolocation of a user from a mobile device of the user; associating the geolocation of the user with an identifier of the user in an offers engine; receiving a request for an offer from another computing device of the user, the request including or prompting obtaining data from the other computing device sufficient to identify the user; retrieving the geolocation of the user obtained from the mobile device by identifying the user with the data from the other computing device sufficient to identify the user account; selecting, with the offers engine, a responsive offer based on the geolocation of the user obtained from the mobile device; and sending the responsive offer to the other computing device of the user.
Public/Granted literature
- US20170148060A1 CROSS-DEVICE GEOLOCATION SENSING TO GEOTARGET OFFERS Public/Granted day:2017-05-25
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