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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 13, 2021
Filed:
Jun. 06, 2016
Groupon, Inc., Chicago, IL (US);
Anthony Joseph, Bellevue, WA (US);
Groupon, Inc., Chicago, IL (US);
Abstract
An apparatus, computer program product, and method are disclosed for improving relevance of promotions. An example apparatus includes communications circuitry configured to receive contextual data regarding a consumer device, transmit, to the consumer device, a message indicating terms of a promotion, and receive, from the consumer device, a message requesting purchase of the promotion. The example apparatus further includes design circuitry configured to identify a geographical area for redemption, retrieve a set of promotions related to the geographical area for redemption and to preferential indicators contained within the contextual data regarding the consumer device, determine a proximity density mapping of each promotion within the retrieved set of promotions, and select the promotion from the set of retrieved promotions based on a comparison of the determined proximity density mapping of the promotion to the proximity density mappings of the other promotions in the set of retrieved promotions.