Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Apparatus and method for utilizing immediate gratification promotions
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Application No.: US17116871Application Date: 2020-12-09
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Publication No.: US11574335B2Publication Date: 2023-02-07
- Inventor: Anthony Joseph , Gregory J. Conklin , Vinayak Hegde , David Fite
- Applicant: Groupon, Inc.
- Applicant Address: US IL Chicago
- Assignee: Groupon, Inc.
- Current Assignee: Groupon, Inc.
- Current Assignee Address: US IL Chicago
- Agency: Alston & Bird LLP
- Main IPC: G06Q30/00
- IPC: G06Q30/00 ; G06Q30/02

Abstract:
An apparatus, computer program product, and method are disclosed for generating immediate gratification promotions. An example apparatus includes communications circuitry configured to receive contextual data regarding a set of consumer devices, wherein the contextual data identifies locations of each consumer device of the set of consumer devices, receive resource management data regarding a set of merchant locations, transmit, to a consumer device of the set of consumer devices, a message indicating terms of an immediate gratification promotion redeemable at a merchant location of the set of merchant locations, wherein the immediate gratification promotion comprises a promotion for which purchase automatically initiates redemption, and receive, from the consumer device, a message requesting purchase of the immediate gratification promotion. The example apparatus further includes design circuitry configured to generate the terms of the immediate gratification promotion based on the received contextual data and the received resource management data.
Public/Granted literature
- US20210166261A1 APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR UTILIZING IMMEDIATE GRATIFICATION PROMOTIONS Public/Granted day:2021-06-03
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