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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 17, 2021
Filed:
Mar. 11, 2020
Groupon, Inc., Chicago, IL (US);
Geoffrey Hubert Woo, San Francisco, CA (US);
Mahmudul Arefin Din, San Francisco, CA (US);
Robert James Skillington, San Francisco, CA (US);
Michael Chen, San Francisco, CA (US);
Tihomir Tsankov Georgiev, Menlo Park, CA (US);
Groupon, Inc., Chicago, IL (US);
Abstract
Systems, apparatus, methods, and non-transitory media for programmatically grouping consumer devices into stable spatial clusters are discussed herein. Some embodiments may include a point-of-sale system including a first consumer device of a stable spatial cluster of consumer devices to serve as a communication beacon. The first consumer device, that serves as the communication beacon, is configured to transmit and receive signals between a server and the other consumer devices of the stable spatial cluster of consumer devices. The other consumer devices receive a beacon identifier from the first consumer device and are thereby associated with a point-of-sale order to facilitate suitable point-of-sale functionality that may be provided via the first consumer device.