G06Q 20/387
Payment using discounts or coupons
Official title: {Payment using discounts or coupons (relating to marketing G06Q30/02)}
G06Q20/387 (Payment using discounts or coupons) appears on 1,552 US grants and 2,609 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in G06Q- Granted patents
- 1,552
- Published applications
- 2,609
- Assignees
- 789
- Inventors
- 4,147
- Latest grant
- 22 Sep 2026
Filings by year
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| 2001 | 30 | 18 |
| 2002 | 22 | 65 |
| 2003 | 13 | 60 |
| 2004 | 15 | 55 |
| 2005 | 21 | 57 |
| 2006 | 17 | 72 |
| 2007 | 24 | 51 |
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| 2009 | 27 | 76 |
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| 2012 | 40 | 122 |
| 2013 | 70 | 129 |
| 2014 | 59 | 147 |
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| 2017 | 69 | 124 |
| 2018 | 46 | 113 |
| 2019 | 96 | 150 |
| 2020 | 106 | 168 |
| 2021 | 139 | 201 |
| 2022 | 125 | 168 |
| 2023 | 113 | 133 |
| 2024 | 117 | 118 |
| 2025 | 86 | 94 |
| 2026 | 36 | 40 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Recent patents
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- Systems and methods for providing compensation, rebate, cashback, and reward for using mobile and wearable payment services, digital currency, NFC touch payments, mobile digital card barcode payments, and multimedia haptic capture buying22 Sep 2026US 12,743,710 B2
- Rewards-based payments15 Sep 2026US 12,737,754 B2Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
- Location-based virtual good transaction methods and systems8 Sep 2026US 12,731,166 B2Nant Holdings IP, LLC
- Systems and methods for processing electronic transactions based on consumer characteristics1 Sep 2026US 12,725,144 B2Yahoo Assets LLC
- Proactive identification of group membership for discounted transactions8 Oct 2026US 2026/0311205 A1Wells Fargo Bank, N. A.
- Maintenance of virtual credit card pool for airline passenger vouchers8 Oct 2026US 2026/0311207 A1TA Connections IL, LLC dba TA Connections
- Intra-event reward distribution system20 Aug 2026US 2026/0245115 A1Japan Medical Engineering Institute, Inc.
- Network communication system with cost determination for communication paths20 Aug 2026US 2026/0246658 A1Lavu, Inc.
- User identity-based payment method and apparatus6 Aug 2026US 2026/0228729 A1Alipay (Hangzhou) Information Technology Co., Ltd.
Most cited
By later US patents
- Method and system for selective incentive point-of-sale marketing in response to customer shopping histories1,046US 5,687,322 ACredit Verification Corporation · 1997
- National customer recognition system and method953US 5,761,647 AHarrah's Operating Company, Inc. · 1998
- Electric couponing method and apparatus916US 5,710,886 ASellectSoft, L.C. · 1998
- Customer worth differentiation by selective activation of physical instrumentalities within the casino819US 6,003,013 AHarrah's Operating Company, Inc. · 1999
- System and method for administration of incentive award program through use of credit801US 5,025,372 AMeridian Enterprises Corporation · 1991