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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 13, 2021
Filed:
Apr. 30, 2012
David Thacker, Burlingame, CA (US);
David Hoover, Wheaton, IL (US);
Anthony Caliendo, Chicago, IL (US);
Ruslan Gilfanov, Mountain View, CA (US);
Amit Aggarwal, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
David Thacker, Burlingame, CA (US);
David Hoover, Wheaton, IL (US);
Anthony Caliendo, Chicago, IL (US);
Ruslan Gilfanov, Mountain View, CA (US);
Amit Aggarwal, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Groupon, Inc., Chicago, IL (US);
Abstract
A sales enhancement system and method is disclosed. The sales enhancement system is configured to use one or more deal program collections, which are groupings or compilations of deal programs. The sales enhancement system manages deal programs in the deal program collections at various stages of use including: associating a deal program with multiple deal program collections; determining the number of deals to assign to the different deal programs; using triggers to select which deal program collections to access; transmitting an offer for a deal; and processing acceptances of the offers.