Google Inc.

Douglas Alexander Gresham

David Singleton

Farhan Shamsi

Yakov Okshtein

Lixin Zhang

Alan Newberger

Ray Xiaohang Wang

Marcus Alexander Foster

Debra Lin Repenning

Chandrasekhar Thota

Nicholas Fey

Petra Cross

Andres Morales

Xiaohang Wang

Andrew David Walbran

Kenneth Paul Stoltz

Marcus Alexander Folster

Receiving point of interest zones and alerts on user devices comprises communicating, by a user computing device to a remote computing device, a request for point of interest data corresponding to points of interest within a proximity of the user device; presenting the received point of interest data; identifying a particular point of interest; and outputting an alert regarding the particular point of interest. Receiving point of interest zones on user devices comprises communicating a request for point of interest data; receiving the point of interest data from the remote network device wherein a size of the point of interest zone is determined based on a density of points of interest in the proximity of the user, and wherein the shape of the point of interest zone is expanded in a direction of travel and contracted in the opposite direction; and presenting the received point of interest data.

Configurable point of interest alerts

Providing points of interest to user devices in variable zones

Systems and methods are described herein for supporting loyalty tiers. According to certain aspects, a custom number of loyalty tiers may be specified. Dynamic tier boundaries may be defined for each tier based upon a specified number of loyalty points, a percentile of total loyalty points, or a combination thereof. Periodic recomputing of tier boundary values can support dynamic loyalty tiers. According to certain other aspects, a user loyalty status may include a current tier and a pending tier. User loyalty points may be updated for a current loyalty activity. The updated user loyalty points may be compared with a point boundary for the pending tier and the user may be updated to the pending tier. Transacting the tier update with the server may be bypassed to reduce tier update latency. Also, immediate access at the client to features associated with the updated current tier may be supported.

Customer loyalty tiers with reduced latency state updates

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Kitchener, Canada

Douglas Alexander Gresham