Quotient Technology Inc.

Coupons.com Incorporated

Cashstar Inc.

Steven R Boal

Michael Walsh

Jeffrey Weitzman

Nahrin Reihaneh

Bruce Sattley

Vivek Gupta

Ravi Kant Keswani

Manickababu Muthu

Gayathri Uday Nayak

Manickababu Muthugopalakrishnan

Durgamba Desaraju

Tino Gudelj

Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer program products, in which a method includes attributing a value to a pre-paid payment instrument, determining an expiration time associated with the pre-paid payment instrument, and automatically return an un-used portion of value associated with the pre-paid payment instrument at the expiration time to the purchaser.

Pre-paid payment instrument processing

According to an embodiment, a computer-implemented method stores a set of historical transaction records pertaining to past consumer transactions, contextual transaction data, and offer activation and redemption tracking logs; receives a request to generate a new item offer; and uses a parameter optimizer to create suggested additional parameters. The parameter optimizer receives the stored records and data and determines a potential impact of the suggested additional parameters on sales of the item. In an embodiment, a visualization of the impact of the set of the parameters is presented on an offer definition interface. In an embodiment, the suggested additional parameters are automatically sent to the offer provider based in part on previous offer data associated with the offer provider.

Automatic recommendation of offer parameters to an offer provider based on historical transaction data

According to an embodiment, one or more computing devices process a bifurcated transaction for items available at a store. The bifurcated transaction is initiated when a consumer orders a set of first item(s) electronically, e.g., using an app, website etc. At the store, the consumer picks up the order of the set of first item(s) and then peruses and adds a set of second item(s) to a shopping cart. In one embodiment, a label (e.g., a single unique machine-readable label or barcode) identifies the set of first item(s). At checkout, the transaction may be completed by scanning respective machine-readable labels on the set of second item(s) and the label that identifies the set of first item(s).

System for bifurcated transaction for products at a brick-and-mortar store

Coupon information is provided electronically in association with receipts for transactions at physical stores and/or online stores. A retailer causes performance of a transaction in which one or more items are purchased. An interface configured to accept input indicating a customer identifier, such as an email address, associated with the transaction is provided. When input has been received via the interface, it is determined whether the identifier is associated with a known customer identity. If the customer identifier is associated with a known identity, digital coupons associated with that identity are applied against the transaction. An electronic receipt is further provided for the transaction via, for instance, the provided email address or a web-based application in which a session is established in connection with the identity.

Check-out based distribution and redemption of digital promotions

According to an embodiment, a data processing system for managing electronic offers comprises: a memory storing a set of historical transaction records pertaining to past consumer transactions and a set of offer data relating to an offer provider; and a logic module adapted to automatically suggest an offer to the offer provider based on at least a subset of the historical transaction records and at least a subset of the offer data, the offer being targeted at a consumer. In an embodiment, the electronic offer is suggested in response to a request for a receipt made by the consumer. In an embodiment, the electronic offer is automatically approved by the offer provider and is included in a transaction receipt transmitted to a data processing system associated with the consumer.

Automatic recommendation of digital offers to an offer provider based on historical transaction data

A system for displaying an advertisement from an advertisement database on a client computer on a network including a processing circuit configured to receive a display request for an advertisement, to determine an advertisement display limit and a number of times the advertisement has been displayed. The processing circuit is also configured to provide access to display the advertisement based on the advertisement display limit and the number of times the advertisement has been displayed.

System and method for controlling distribution of electronic coupons

According to an embodiment, a data processing system processes a bifurcated transaction for items available at a brick-and-mortar store. The bifurcated transaction is initiated when a consumer orders a set of non-perishable items electronically, e.g., using an app, website etc. At the brick-and-mortar store, the consumer picks up a shopping cart with the order of the set of non-perishable items and then peruses and adds perishable items to the shopping cart. In one embodiment, a single unique machine-readable label (e.g., a barcode) identifies the set of the non-perishable items. At checkout, the transaction is completed by scanning respective machine-readable labels (e.g., barcodes) on the perishable items and the single unique machine-readable label that identifies the set of the non-perishable items.

An email server sends an email message to a user with an empty container. When the user uses an email client to open the email message, the email client transmits pulls data to be loaded into the empty container from a dynamic content provider. The dynamic content provider determines in real time a set of valid coupon offers for the user and transmits the set to the user in real-time for insertion into the empty container. The dynamic content provider may determine a rank for each of the set of the valid coupon offers, such that the rank is observed when the set of the coupon offers is inserted into the empty container.

Transmitting valid coupon offers to an email recipient

Checkout-based distributed of digital promotions

A system, method, and computer-readable storage medium having processor-executable instructions recorded thereon is provided for distributing transactional advertisements from a distribution site over a network to online publishers. Transactional data items are rendered by the online publishers, with control elements provided from the distribution site, to control use of the transactional data items on the user terminal.

Growing community of inventors

Los Altos, CA, United States of America

Steven R Boal