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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 30, 2025
Filed:
Mar. 17, 2020
Bytedance Inc., Wilmington, DE (US);
Varun Krishna, Chicago, IL (US);
Marius Ciocirlan, Chicago, IL (US);
Peter Bergstrom, Chicago, IL (US);
Benjamin Kim, Chicago, IL (US);
Bytedance Inc., Wilmington, DE (US);
Abstract
An apparatus configured to output a user interface depicting a plurality of locations to a merchant device and related methods and computer program products are discussed herein. The apparatus is configured, according to some embodiments, to associate beacon identifier data that identifies a plurality of communication beacons with a plurality of locations of interest. The apparatus is further configured to output a user interface indicating that a consumer device is located at a particular location of interest based at least in part on consumer presence data received from the consumer device. In some embodiments, the user interface comprises a consumer profile record associated with the consumer presence data. In some embodiments, message data is received and used to generate merchant messages.