Systems and methods for providing shared promotion redemptions

US10438188B1 · kind B1 · utility

Assignee

• Groupon, Inc. · US

Inventors

• Rishi R. Arora · Chicago, US
• Alan Deitch · Mount Prospect, US
• Geoffrey Hubert Woo · San Francisco, US
• Mahmudul Arefin Din · San Francisco, US
• Robert James Skillington · Melbourne, AU
• Michael Chen · San Francisco, US
• Tihomir Tsankov Georgiev · Menlo Park, US

Key dates

• Filing date: Sep 24, 2014
• Grant date: Oct 8, 2019
• Expiry date: May 10, 2038

Classification

• Technology area (CPC G): Physics
• CPC primary: G06Q30/0238
• WIPO field: IT methods for management
• WIPO sector: Electrical engineering

Abstract

Systems, apparatus, methods, and non-transitory media for programmatically grouping consumers are discussed herein. Some embodiments may include a system configured to provide to shared promotion redemptions. The system may include a merchant device with processing circuitry configured to associate multiple consumer accounts with a point-of-sale order. Based on receiving redemption data from a consumer device associated with one of the consumer accounts, the system may be further configured to allow the consumer device to share a selected promotion. For example, the system may determine payment share amounts for each consumer account based on a transaction price of the point-of-sale order and the redemption value of the promotion selected for shared redemption.