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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 14, 2020
Filed:
Jan. 03, 2017
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Ryan M. Graham, Durham, NC (US);
Jeremy A. Greenberger, Raleigh, NC (US);
Ciaran E. Hannigan, Morrisville, NC (US);
Matthew J. Margolis, Raleigh, NC (US);
Kevin M. J. Roisin, Cary, NC (US);
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
Approaches presented herein enable providing a group-based purchasing incentive related to a product or service at a retail store to a customer among a group of customers contingent on an action being performed by a predefined number of members from the group. Specifically, a customer in a retail store is identified as part of a group of customers. A notification of a group-based purchasing incentive offer is transmitted to a mobile device of the identified customer. The offer is contingent on a specified number of other customers in the group performing an action. When the specified number of other customers in the group have performed the action, the group-based purchasing incentive is provided to the identified customer.