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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Dec. 29, 2020

Filed:

Mar. 06, 2014
Applicant:

Retailmenot, Inc., Austin, TX (US);

Inventors:

Kyle William Kothe, Austin, TX (US);

Edgar Mitchell Dapremont, III, Austin, TX (US);

Jimmy Jaejoon Song, Austin, TX (US);

Nicole Juneau Ball, Austin, TX (US);

Eithan Zilkha, Austin, TX (US);

Jeffrey Ryan Rego, Austin, TX (US);

Assignee:

RetailMeNot, Inc., Austin, TX (US);

Attorney:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06Q 30/02 (2012.01); G06Q 30/06 (2012.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06Q 30/0225 (2013.01); G06Q 30/0257 (2013.01); G06Q 30/0261 (2013.01); G06Q 30/0267 (2013.01); G06Q 30/0276 (2013.01); G06Q 30/06 (2013.01);
Abstract

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.


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