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

US9996859B1 · kind B1 · utility

Assignee

• Groupon, Inc. · US

Inventors

• Tanya Koshy · Sunnyvale, US
• Matias Esteban Arenas · Santiago, CL
• Gaston L'Huillier · Cambridge, US
• Francisco Larrain · Palo Alto, US
• Lori E. Kaplan · Menlo Park, US
• Ricardo Zilleruelo · Chicago, US
• Kavita Kochar · Chicago, US
• Amit Koren · Chicago, US
• Stephen Wooten · Chicago, US
• Karan Kaushik · San Francisco, US
• Nathaniel Blake Scholl · Oakland, US
• Seth Harris · Greenwich, US
• Jason Alan Crawford · San Francisco, US
• Rodrigo Duenas · Palo Alto, US
• Latife Genc-Kaya · Santa Clara, US
• Kamson Lai · Palo Alto, US
• Aviv Eyal · New York, US
• Deepika Misra · Seattle, US
• Natalia Corominas · New York, US
• Mechie Nkengla · Chicago, US
• Mathew Jay Van Orden · Leawood, US

Key dates

• Filing date: Sep 27, 2013
• Grant date: Jun 12, 2018
• Expiry date: Sep 23, 2034

Classification

• Technology area (CPC G): Physics
• CPC primary: G06Q30/02
• 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 promotion 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, determine promotion content and parameters based on merchant self-service indicators, and monitor and analyze promotion offers for merchants with similar merchant self-service indicators. The system may determine the relative successfulness of a promotion offer for a merchant and/or category of merchant. In some embodiments, the system may be further configured to revise the promotion offer programmatically and/or upon receiving the merchant's approval of the programmatically generated proposed edits to the promotion offer.