Apparatus, method, and computer program product for generating promotion request data

US11392986B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• Groupon, Inc. · US

Inventors

• Eric Lefkofsky · Glencoe, US
• Daniel M. Roarty · Chicago, US
• Matthew Joseph Hanson · Chicago, US
• Zachary Finley · Chicago, US
• David William Kunst · Chicago, US
• Feras Karablieh · Issaquah, US

Key dates

• Filing date: Jun 24, 2020
• Grant date: Jul 19, 2022
• Expiry date: Jun 24, 2040

Classification

• Technology area (CPC G): Physics
• CPC primary: G06Q30/0257
• WIPO field: IT methods for management
• WIPO sector: Electrical engineering

Abstract

Systems, apparatus, and methods for effectively allowing consumers to request promotions from a merchant are discussed herein. Some embodiments may provide for a networked device, apparatus, or server configured to: in response to determining that a merchant device is not associated with at least one available promotion, determine, via a processor, a promotion request threshold value indicating a required number of promotion requests for generating a promotion associated with the merchant device; receive a plurality of promotion requests from a plurality of consumer devices via the network; calculate, via the processor, a promotion request count associated with the plurality of promotion requests; and in response to determining that the promotion request count satisfies the promotion request threshold value, generate a promotion offer request indicating a request to generate the promotion.