Retailmenot, Inc.

Jeffrey Ryan Rego

J Seth Randle

Alexander M Cheng

Scott Jason Throndson

Nicholas James Shiffert

Shaun Dubuque

Michael Thomas Georgoff

Kyle William Kothe

Eithan Zilkha

Jimmy Jaejoon Song

Edgar Mitchell Dapremont, Iii

Nicole Juneau Ball

Edgar Mitchell Dapremont

Nicholas J Shiffert

Provided is a process, including: obtaining an offer issued by a merchant, the offer being redeemable on-line, at the merchant's website, in-store, at a physical location of the merchant, or both; obtaining a plurality of single-use offer codes associated with the offer; receiving a request for a single-use offer code, the request having a phone number; sending to the phone number, via a text messaging service, a text message comprising a uniform resource identifier (URI) to a select single-use offer code of the plurality single-use offer codes; and sending the single-use offer code to a consumer user device in response to a user selection of the URI.

Providing single-use offers

Provided is a process, including: obtaining, in memory of a first mobile computing device, a plurality of content items, at least some of the content items pertaining to respective different geographic areas; receiving, with the first mobile computing device, data indicating a user interaction with a given content item among the plurality of the content items; and in response to receiving the data indicative of the user interaction, transmitting a wireless signal from the first mobile computing device directly to a second mobile computing device that is different from the first mobile computing device, the wireless signal being indicative of the given content item and indicating that the given content item pertains to a given geographic area within range of the wireless signal transmission.

Peer-to-peer geotargeting content with AD-HOC mesh networks

Provided are systems and processes for distribution of offer codes, including: obtaining a plurality of offer codes from a merchant, each offer code associated with a start date an expiration date and receiving, via a network, a plurality of requests for offer codes from a respective plurality of consumer user device, each request occurring during a respective time period. For each request, an offer code is selected from the plurality of offer codes based on the start date, the expiration date, and the respective time the request was received and the selected offer code is sent to the requesting consumer user.

Time period distribution of offer codes

Provided is a process, including: receiving, with one or more processors, from a remote user computing device, a geographic location of the user computing device; determining that the user computing device is in a cache geographic area in which information about potentially relevant geographically-targeted offers is to be predictively loaded into memory of the user computing device before the user requests the information about geographically-targeted offers; selecting, with one or more processors, an offer from a repository of offers based on the selected offer being associated with the cache geographic area or a location in the cache geographic area; and in response to the determination, sending, with one or more processors, the selected offer to the user computing device for storage in cache memory of the user computing device before the user requests the selected offer.

Caching geolocated offers

Provided is a process for managing offers includes: presenting, on a mobile device, offer-creation interfaces by which a merchant specifies an offer, the offer parameters including data indicative of an amount of instances of the offer to be reserved by consumers; obtaining, with the mobile device, the offer parameters; obtaining, with the mobile device, based on wireless signals received by the mobile device indicative of location of the mobile device, a geographic location where consumers are to be alerted to the offer; and sending a request to an affiliate network to distribute the offer to a plurality of publishers within the affiliate network and limit use of the offer according to the specified amount of instances of the offer to be reserved by consumers, wherein the publishers each send a plurality of offers to consumers and wherein the affiliate network tracks redemptions of the offers with merchants.

Mobile-offer creation

Peer-to-peer geotargeting content with ad-hoc mesh networks

Growing community of inventors

Austin, TX, United States of America

Jeffrey Ryan Rego