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Date of Patent:
May. 24, 2022

Filed:

Sep. 28, 2015
Applicant:

Groupon, Inc., Chicago, IL (US);

Inventors:

Thothathri Srinivasan, Mountain View, CA (US);

Sunil Arora, Sunnyvale, CA (US);

Bhupesh Bansal, Sunnyvale, CA (US);

Assaf Eisenberg, Chicago, IL (US);

Assignee:

GROUPON, INC., Chicago, IL (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06Q 30/00 (2012.01); G06Q 30/06 (2012.01); G06Q 50/00 (2012.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06Q 30/0605 (2013.01); G06Q 50/01 (2013.01);
Abstract

A system, method, and computer program product are provided herein. An example system includes e-commerce circuitry configured to perform a transaction including a promotion and determine at least one purchased promotion of the consumer account, consumer sharing circuitry configured to associate a transaction metric of at least one purchased promotion to a consumer sharing account, group progression circuitry configured to determine a group progress count based on the transaction metric and determine whether the group progress count exceeds a group progress threshold, and consumer sharing circuitry configured to associate at least a portion of the consumer group reward to at least one consumer account in response to the group progress count exceeding the group progress threshold.


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