Method, apparatus, and computer readable medium for providing a self-service interface

US10304093B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• Groupon, Inc. · US

Inventors

• Francisco Jose Larrain Wicha · Palo Alto, US
• Lori E. Kaplan · Menlo Park, US
• Matias Esteban Arenas · Santiago, CL
• Gaston L'Huillier · Cambridge, US
• Ricardo Andres Zilleruelo Ramos · Mountain View, US
• Rodrigo Alfonso Duenas Fernandez · Palo Alto, US
• Amit Koren · Chicago, US

Key dates

• Filing date: Jan 24, 2013
• Grant date: May 28, 2019
• Expiry date: Mar 1, 2033

Classification

• Technology area (CPC G): Physics
• CPC primary: G06Q30/0276
• WIPO field: IT methods for management
• WIPO sector: Electrical engineering

Abstract

Provided herein are systems, methods and computer readable media for programmatically generating and/or revising deal offers for a merchant based on one or more merchant self-service indicators. In providing such functionality, the system can be configured to, for example, facilitate registration and verification of merchant identities, monitor and analyze various deal offers for merchants with similar merchant self-service indicators, that enable the system to determine the relative successfulness of a deal offer for a merchant and/or category of merchant. In some embodiments, the system may be further configured to revise the deal offer programmatically and/or upon receiving the merchant's approval of the programmatically generated proposed edits to the deal offer.