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US 10,592,915 B2Granted
Matching a coupon to a specific product
AssigneeRetailMeNot, Inc.
InventorsDavid Jonathan Lemphers, Shreyas Karnik, Christopher Couhault, Alexandros Suvacioglu
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Abstract
A computer-implemented method, a system and a computer program product for processing third party online coupons. According to one embodiment, a third-party online coupon is received. Text is parsed to determine a merchant's website. The third-party online coupon description is parsed to determine a product term. The product term is searched for. The third-party online coupon is tested with a product associated with the product term. The third-party online coupon is determined if valid with the product.
Claims29
A computer-implemented method of processing third-party online coupons, the method comprising:
- obtaining, with one or more computers, more than a plurality of third-party online coupons;
- parsing text to determine merchants' web sites;
- detecting coupon-code input text boxes of checkout pages of at least some of the merchants' websites by:
- looking up previously specified characterizations of paths through respective merchants' websites in response to navigating to respective merchants' websites;
- detecting checkout pages by, for each of a plurality of webpages of respective merchants' web sites, determining whether respective webpages are checkout pages based on the previously specified characterization of paths through the respective merchants' websites;
- and
- detecting coupon-code input text boxes in the checkout pages by, for each of a plurality of elements of document object models of respective checkout pages, determining whether elements are coupon-code input text boxes based on proximity to other elements of the document object models;
- parsing at least some of the third-party online coupons to determine product terms, wherein determining product terms comprises:
- lexing natural-language text of a first coupon among the plurality of third-party online coupons to obtain a plurality of terms,
- removing a first subset of the plurality of terms determined to impart noise to the text of the first coupon, and
- determining which terms of a second subset of the terms occur in a database of brands;
- searching, with one or more computers, for the product terms;
- using the coupon-code input text boxes, automatically testing, with one or more computers, the third-party online coupons with products associated with the product terms and identified in response to searching for the product terms, wherein:
- different coupon-testing computer-processes are configured to test at least some of the different subsets concurrent with the other coupon-testing computer-processes by requesting at least some of the merchants' web sites to apply at least some of the third-party coupons to at least some of the products, and
- at least some third-party coupons are each separately tested against multiple products on a given merchant's website;
- and
- determining, with one or more computers, whether the third-party online coupons apply to at least some of the products based on responses from the merchants' web sites and storing at least some results in memory.
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One or more non-transitory, machine-readable media storing instructions that when executed cause one or more computers to effectuate operations comprising:
- obtaining, with one or more computers, more than a plurality of third-party online coupons;
- parsing text to determine merchants' web sites;
- detecting coupon-code input text boxes of checkout pages of at least some of the merchants' websites by:
- looking up previously specified characterizations of paths through respective merchants' websites in response to navigating to respective merchants' websites;
- detecting checkout pages by, for each of a plurality of webpages of respective merchants' web sites, determining whether respective webpages are checkout pages based on the previously specified characterization of paths through the respective merchants' websites;
- and
- detecting coupon-code input text boxes in the checkout pages by, for each of a plurality of elements of document object models of respective checkout pages, determining whether elements are coupon-code input text boxes based on proximity to other elements of the document object models;
- parsing at least some of the third-party online coupons to determine product terms, wherein determining product terms comprises:
- lexing natural-language text of a first coupon among the plurality of third-party online coupons to obtain a plurality of terms,
- removing a first subset of the plurality of terms determined to impart noise to the text of the first coupon, and
- determining which terms of a second subset of the terms occur in a database of brands;
- searching, with one or more computers, for the product terms;
- using the coupon-code input text boxes, automatically testing, with one or more computers, the third-party online coupons with products associated with the product terms and identified in response to searching for the product terms, wherein:
- different coupon-testing computer-processes are configured to test at least some of the different subsets concurrent with the other coupon-testing computer-processes by requesting at least some of the merchants' web sites to apply at least some of the third-party coupons to at least some of the products, and
- at least some third-party coupons are each separately tested against multiple products on a given merchant's website;
- and
- determining, with one or more computers, whether the third-party online coupons apply to at least some of the products based on responses from the merchants' websites and storing at least some results in memory.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.