Groupon, Inc.

Bytedance Inc.

Ganesh Angappan

Karthik Paulramachandran

Ramya J

Rajeev Kumar

Will Megson

Naren Chainani

Joseph Hawilo

Rayma J

Joey Hawilo

Embodiments are provided that improve cybersecurity and data privacy, specifically by obfuscating a sender address utilized to generate, transmit, and/or otherwise cause transmission a corresponding message corresponding to at least one received RTB reply message. Some example embodiments cause provision of at least one reply to buy (RTB) prompt to a sender device, receive a RTB reply message associated with the sender device in response to the at least one RTB prompt, parse, from the RTB reply message, at least a first sender address associated with the RTB reply message, generate a transaction address by at least obfuscating the first sender address associated with at least the RTB reply message, and cause transmission of a message associated with the RTB reply message to a recipient device, the message comprising the transaction address indicated as a second sender address associated with the message.

Apparatuses, computer-implemented methods, and computer program products for obfuscation of a sender of an electronically transmissible message

A method, apparatus and computer program product are provided for electronic transactions based on a reply message. In the context of a computer executed method, the method includes receiving a message, from a sender device, including a reply to buy (RTB) identifier associated with a promotion and a RTB validation code. The method also includes authenticating, using a promotion and marketing service host, the RTB validation code, associating the message from the sender with a recipient identifier, and causing the transmission of a purchase order message to the recipient device based on the RTB identifier.

Method and apparatus for electronic transactions based on a reply message

A method, apparatus, and computer program product are disclosed for facilitating two-way email communication in manner that obfuscates sender and recipient email addresses. The method includes receiving a correspondence request indication; assigning a first transaction address to a sender and a second transaction address to a recipient; receiving a message from the sender; associating the message from the sender with the first transaction address; and causing a transmission of the message from the sender to the recipient using the first transaction address. A corresponding apparatus and computer program product are also provided.

Obfuscation of email addresses

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Ramapuram, India

Ganesh Angappan