Prescient and adaptive point-of-sale systems

US11756080B1 · kind B1 · utility

Assignee

• Groupon, Inc. · US

Inventors

• Sri Viswanath · Palo Alto, US
• David Gomez-Rosado · Petaluma, US
• Andrey Zaytsev · Sammamish, US
• Josh Krall · San Francisco, US
• Seth Harris · Greenwich, US
• David Scott Parker · Mountain View, US
• Travis Chow · Sausalito, US
• Qi Li · New Providence, US
• Samuel Thorpe · Los Angeles, US
• Clive Richard Beavis · Rue de l'Église, US
• Tihomir Tsankov Georgiev · Menlo Park, US
• Gabe Nydick · Fremont, US
• Robert James Skillington · Melbourne, AU

Key dates

• Filing date: Dec 28, 2015
• Grant date: Sep 12, 2023
• Expiry date: Jul 26, 2037

Classification

• Technology area (CPC H): Electricity
• CPC primary: H04L2463/102
• WIPO field: IT methods for management
• WIPO sector: Electrical engineering

Abstract

Systems, apparatus, methods, and non-transitory media for providing prescient and adaptive point-of-sale services via electronic networks are discussed herein. Some embodiments may include a system with one or more servers. The one or more servers may be configured to generate digital consumer tokens and provide the digital consumer tokens to consumer devices for sharing with merchant devices. When a merchant device receives the digital consumer token, the merchant device may forward the digital consumer token to the one or more servers in exchange for consumer data to facilitate consumer service. In some embodiments, the one or more servers may be configured to provide point-of-sale interfaces that adapt to different consumer preferences or consumer device signals. Some embodiments may provide for consumer interfaces that allow consumers to manage their electronic identity at various (e.g., merchant) locations.