US 10,318,992 B2 · Cross-device geolocation sensing to geotarget offers

Abstract

Provided is a process of distributing offers to non-location-sensing devices based on a geolocation sensed by another device, the process comprising: obtaining a geolocation of a user from a mobile device of the user; associating the geolocation of the user with an identifier of the user in an offers engine; receiving a request for an offer from another computing device of the user, the request including or prompting obtaining data from the other computing device sufficient to identify the user; retrieving the geolocation of the user obtained from the mobile device by identifying the user with the data from the other computing device sufficient to identify the user account; selecting, with the offers engine, a responsive offer based on the geolocation of the user obtained from the mobile device; and sending the responsive offer to the other computing device of the user.

Claims38

Dependent claims

A tangible, non-transitory, machine-readable medium storing instructions that when executed by one or more computers effectuate operations comprising:

receiving, with one or more processors, via a network, a geolocation of a first computing device, wherein the first computing device is configured to sense the geolocation;
receiving, with one or more processors, via a network, a request for content from a second computing device different from the first computing device, wherein the second computing device does not provide its geolocation in association with the request for content;
correlating, with one or more processors, the geolocation of the first computing device with the request for content from the second computing device;
selecting a plurality of content items for the second computing device based on the geolocation of the first computing device that is correlated with the request for content;
and
causing the plurality of content items to be sent, via a network, to the second computing device.

3 more elements

A method, comprising:

receiving, with one or more processors, via a network, a geolocation of a first computing device, wherein the first computing device is configured to sense the geolocation;
receiving, with one or more processors, via a network, a request for content from a second computing device different from the first computing device, wherein the second computing device does not provide its geolocation in association with the request for content;
correlating, with one or more processors, the geolocation of the first computing device with the request for content from the second computing device;
selecting a plurality of content items for the second computing device based on the geolocation of the first computing device that is correlated with the request for content;
and
causing the plurality of content items to be sent, via a network, to the second computing device.

3 more elements

Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application

15/421,986Filed 1 Feb 2017 · continuation

Priority

11 Jun 2012

Published

US 2017/0148060 A125 May 2017

Granted

11 Jun 2019

Term ends

Not estimatedThe source records don’t support an estimate.

Classification13 codes

G06Q 30/0261
Targeted advertisements: based on user location
G06Q 30/02
Commerce: marketing; Price estimation or determination; Fundraising
G06Q 30/0239
Discounts or incentives, e.g. coupons or rebates: online discounts or incentives
G06Q 30/0242
Advertisements: determining effectiveness of advertisements

Family

Application61/658,387Us provisional application · filed 11 Jun 2012

PCT/US2013/045186Parent of this continuation-in-part · filed 11 Jun 2013

Application14/060,550Parent of this continuation-in-part · filed 22 Oct 2013

Application62/016,295Us provisional application · filed 24 Jun 2014

Application14/467,590Parent of this continuation · filed 25 Aug 2014

US 9,558,507 B2Parent of this continuation-in-part · filed 31 Jan 2017

US 2017/0148060 A1Pre-grant publication · published 25 May 2017

US 9,595,049 B2Parent of this continuation

Application14/467,590Parent of this continuation-in-part

US 2014/0180817 A1Published application

US 2014/0365304 A1Published application

US 10,318,992 B2This patent

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Cross-device geolocation sensing to geotarget offers

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Cross-device geolocation sensing to geotarget offers

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Abstract

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