Groupon, Inc.

Anthony Caliendo

Rajat Shroff

Kyle Oppenheim

James J Sullivan

Ramya Amancharla

Brian David Fields

Amit Aggarwal

David Thacker

Ruslan Gilfanov

David Hoover

Systems and methods are provided to ingest data objects from a flat file server for use in one or more system operations including providing a renderable data object to a user and updating a data item database. As described, the ingestion system includes an ingestion module, a flat file module, a compliance module, and a deduplication module wherein the modules together ingest a flat file data object, parse and process a renderable data object from the flat file data object, and store the renderable data object in a renderable object database.

Server for ingesting and updating renderable data objects from a flat file server

Systems and methods are provided to ingest and integrate data objects for use in one or more system operations including providing a renderable data object to a user and updating a data item database.

Server for ingesting and rendering data objects

Verification, validation, and updating (VVU) systems and methods for updating a data item database are described. The VVU system includes a user interface, a rendering module, and a verification module, which together present a data item to a user and update a data item database according to various factors described herein.

Server for verification, validation, and updating a data item database containing renderable data objects

A deal program life cycle system and method is disclosed. The deal program life cycle may oversee the issuance of deals from a deal program to consumers over the life cycle of the deal program. One or more aspects of the deal program may change during different periods of the life cycle of the deal program. For example, the deal program may include deal features, a number of units for deals, and relevance features for the deal program. The deal features, number of units of deals, and/or relevance features for the deal program may change during the different periods of the life cycle.

Deal program life cycle

A sales enhancement system and method is disclosed. The sales enhancement system is configured to use one or more deal program collections, which are groupings or compilations of deal programs. The sales enhancement system manages deal programs in the deal program collections at various stages of use including: associating a deal program with multiple deal program collections; determining the number of deals to assign to the different deal programs; using triggers to select which deal program collections to access; transmitting an offer for a deal; and processing acceptances of the offers.

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Chicago, IL, United States of America

Anthony Caliendo