Groupon, Inc.

Bytedance Inc.

Gaston L'Huillier

Francisco Jose Larrain

Hernan Enrique Arroyo Garcia

Amit Koren

Ricardo Andres Zilleruelo

Kamson Lai

Kavita Kochar

Daniel Langdon

Bhupesh Bansal

Mechie Nkengla

Joe Frisbie

Latife Genc-Kaya

Shafiq Shariff

Ricardo A Zilleruelo-Ramos

Jonathan Esterhazy

Evan MacMillan

Sebastian Kreft

Dor Levi

Rajesh Girish Parekh

Feras Karablieh

Logan Tyler Jennings

Srinivasa Raghavan Vedanarayanan

Francisco Jose Larrain Wicha

Shawn Ryan Jeffery

Matias Esteban Arenas

Natalia Corominas

Lori Kaplan

Juzheng Li

Rodrigo Alfonso Duenas Fernandez

Aviv Eyal

Deepika Misra

Derek Nordquist

David Alan Johnston

Nathaniel Blake Scholl

Raju Balakrishnan

Jason Alan Crawford

Mike Aparicio

Vyomkesh Tripathi

Adam Geitgey

Stephen Wooten

Michael Hines

Tanya Koshy

Karan Kaushik

Seth Harris

Jadam Kahn

Ricardo Andres Zilleruelo Ramos

Shawn Ryan Jeffrey

Todd Webb

Rahim Daya

Shi Zhao

Rodrigo Duenas

Mathew Van Orden

Hernan Arroyo

Michael Mac-Vicar

Cristian Orellana

Cristian Sepulveda

Evan Macmillan

Ricardo Andrés Zilleruelo-Ramos

Lori E Kaplan

Provided herein are systems, methods and computer readable media for programmatically generating and/or revising deal 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, monitor and analyze various deal offers for merchants with similar merchant self-service indicators, that enable the system to determine the relative successfulness of a deal offer for a merchant and/or category of merchant. In some embodiments, the system may be further configured to revise the deal offer programmatically and/or upon receiving the merchant's approval of the programmatically generated proposed edits to the deal offer.

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

In general, embodiments of the present invention provide systems, methods and computer readable media for data record compression using graph-based techniques.

Graph-based compression of data records

Embodiments provide a computer-executable method, computer system and non-transitory computer-readable medium for programmatically analyzing a consumer review. The method includes programmatically accessing, via a network device, one or more consumer reviews for a commercial entity or a commercial object. The method also includes executing a consumer review processing engine to programmatically identify an attribute descriptor in the one or more consumer reviews, and executing the consumer review processing engine to programmatically generate a sentiment score associated with the one or more consumer reviews. The method further includes storing, on a non-transitory computer-readable storage device, the attribute descriptor and the sentiment score in association with the commercial entity or the commercial object.

Method and system for programmatic analysis of consumer reviews

Embodiments provide a computer-executable method, computer system and non-transitory computer-readable medium for programmatically assessing consumer sentiment with regard to an attribute descriptor associated with a commercial entity and/or a commercial item. A computer-executed method includes programmatically accessing, via a network device, text of a consumer review and in indication of an attribute descriptor included in the text of the consumer review. The method also includes executing a consumer review processing engine to programmatically analyze the text of the consumer review to generate a sentiment score associated with the attribute descriptor in the context of the consumer review. The method further includes storing, on a non-transitory computer-readable storage device, an indication of the attribute descriptor and the generated sentiment score in association with the commercial entity and/or the commercial item.

Method and system for programmatic analysis of consumer sentiment with regard to attribute descriptors

In general, embodiments of the present invention provide systems, methods and computer readable media for data record compression using graph-based techniques. An example method includes determining a plurality of index components; generating a sorted data record list of a plurality of compound data records; generating an ordered unique index component value list associated with a plurality of unique index component values; assigning a plurality of encodings to the plurality of unique index component values; and generating the compressed data record list based on the ordered unique index component value list and the plurality of encodings.

A method, apparatus, and computer program product are disclosed. The method includes calculating hidden demand for one or more time slots, the one or more time slots defining a time duration during which a performance of a service offered by a promotion and marketing system can be performed. The method further includes determining a booking limit for each time slot of the one or more time slots based on the calculated hidden demand for the time slot and a determined capacity for the time slot, determining that one or more of the time slots comprise available time slots based on a comparison of the booking limits for the one or more time slots to a number of bookings for each of the time slots, and displaying the one or more available time slots in conjunction with the particular promotion A corresponding apparatus and computer program product are also provided.

Booking availability engine

Provided herein are systems, methods and computer readable media for facilitating pricing. An example method may include determining a price adjustable promotion from a plurality of promotions, the price adjustable promotion having a first promotional price, a forecasted demand that provides an indication of a promotion inventory exhaustion period and a plurality of redemption parameters that comprise at least a promotional period, a promotional value and a redemption expiration and causing the price adjustable promotion to be offered at the second promotional price while at least one of the plurality of redemption parameters for the price adjustable promotion remain constant.

Method, apparatus, and computer program product for facilitating dynamic pricing

The email suggestor system and method provide an efficient and effective way to capture a user identifier, such as an email address of a consumer in a retail environment. The email suggestor system generates one or more suggested first text portions based on input data, outputs at least one of the suggested first text portions, and receives a selection of a first text portion. The email suggestor system generates one or more suggested second text portions of a user identifier based on the input data, outputs at least one of the suggested second text portions, and receives a selection of a second text portion. The email suggestor system generates a user identifier including the selected first text portion and the selected second text portion. The email suggestor system uses received feedback response to refine and/or train one or more models with which it generates the suggested text portions.

System for determining consumer identification information at a point-of-sale

Various methods are provided for determining transactional networks using transactional data. One example method may comprise receiving a set of transactional data associated each of a plurality of customers, the set of the transactional data comprising a plurality of ordered lists of elements, each ordered list of elements defining a transaction of a plurality of transactions, the ordered list of elements comprising information identifying a particular customer from the plurality of customers, a merchant, and a timestamp, for each particular customer from the plurality of customers, generating a network, each generated network comprising one or more merchant nodes, a plurality of customer nodes, one or more merchant-customer edges between at least one of the one or more merchant nodes and at least one of the plurality of customer nodes, and one or more customer-customer edges between two or more customer nodes.

Determining transactional networks using transactional data

A method, apparatus, and computer program product are disclosed to improve selection of promotion pricing parameters. The method may determine one or more promotion pricing parameters for a promotion that is offered by a promotion and marketing service. The method includes generating one or more predictive models based on historical promotion performance data and generating a revenue equation using the one or more predictive models. The revenue equation provides an estimate of a revenue received by the promotion and marketing service based on the one or more predictive models. The method further includes determining an estimated revenue using the revenue equation based on one or more input sets of promotion pricing parameters provided as input to the revenue equation, and selecting at least one of the input sets of promotion pricing parameters for the promotion based on the estimated revenue. A corresponding apparatus and computer program product are also provided.

Method and apparatus for determining promotion pricing parameters

In general, examples of the present disclosure provide systems, methods and computer readable media for data record compression using graph-based techniques. For example, an example method includes retrieving a compound data record list that includes compound data records, identifying a unique second component value set that includes unique second component values, determining a data record position list based at least in part on at least one data record position within the compound data record list, and generating a data record encoding of the compound data records.

Embodiments provide a computer-executable method, computer system and non-transitory computer-readable medium for programmatically processing text information to generate attribute descriptors contained therein. The method includes programmatically accessing, via a network device, a textual unit, the textual unit associated with a commercial entity or a commercial object. The method also includes executing a text processing engine to programmatically generate an attribute descriptor from the textual unit. The method further includes storing, on a non-transitory computer-readable storage device, the attribute descriptor in association with identification of the commercial entity or the commercial object.

System and method for programmatic generation of attribute descriptors

Systems, apparatus, and methods for providing promotions based on consumer interaction data are discussed herein. Some embodiments may include a system and/or apparatus including circuitry configured to provide electronic user interfaces (or impressions) of promotions to consumer devices and receive consumer interaction data indicating consumer interaction with the impressions. The system may be further configured to determine a selected promotion for providing in a subsequent impression based on the consumer interaction data. For example, the system may be configured to determine a promotion score of available promotion based on consumer interaction data indicating consumer responses to the available impressions. The promotion score may provide a rating by which available promotions may be selected and may be determined based on various criteria discussed herein to provide selected promotions to consumer devices.

Systems, apparatus, and methods for providing promotions based on consumer interactions

The present invention is associated with a computerized system that takes a subsequence of a credit card number, in particular the suffix (or last n digits), and transaction data associated with the cardholder. For each subsequence of the credit card number, a set of data may be used in order to uniquely identify the cardholder. The identification of the cardholder may be performed in a particular search space that is composed of all possible credit card numbers and includes the transaction data associated with the cardholder. In an exemplary embodiment, the computerized system is used to promote engagements between individual cardholders and merchants by effectuating marketing actions in combination with commercial transactions when products or subscriptions are purchased.

Method and system for credit card holder identification

Provided herein are system, methods and computer readable storage media in facilitating the determination of provider parameters, such as a provider margin, for a promotion of the provider's goods, services, and/or the like in an agreement between the provider, also known as a merchant, and a promotion and marketing service that is configured to illustrate or otherwise inform consumers of the availability of one or more instruments for a promotion. In providing such functionality, the system may be configured to, for example, receive provider characteristic data, determine historical provider information, receive provider promotion structure data, determine a provider profile, determine a positive return on investment threshold, and transmit a provider parameter.

Method for determining provider parameters including a provider margin

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Gaston L'Huillier