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US 11,238,500 B2Granted
Providing offers and associated location information
AssigneeRetailMeNot, Inc.
InventorsMichael Thomas Georgoff, Brian Keith Showers, Scott Jason Throndson
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Abstract
Provided is a process, including: obtaining a coupon issued by a merchant, the coupon being redeemable in-store, at a physical location of the merchant; obtaining one or more merchant location identifiers, the coupon only being redeemable at one or more merchant locations identified by the one or more merchant location identifiers; sending the coupon and the merchant location identifiers to publishers for presentation to consumers by the publishers on user devices of the consumers; and receiving indications from the user devices of the consumers that the consumers interacted with the coupon, the indications indicating a consumer selection of an in-store redemption option.
Claims20
One or more tangible, non-transitory, machine-readable media storing instructions that when executed by one or more processors effectuate operations comprising:
- obtaining, with a computer system, a coupon code;
- making the coupon code available via a plurality of different coupon-and-publisher-specific uniform resource identifier (URIs), each of the URIs corresponding to a different publisher website;
- customizing, with the computer system, content to be presented in users' web browsers with the coupon code for each of the plurality of different publisher websites, wherein:
- resulting customized content comprises first customized content associated with a first publisher website among the plurality of different publisher websites, and second customized content associated with a second publisher website among the plurality of different publisher websites, and
- the second customized content is different from the first customized content,
- the first publisher website is associated with a first coupon-and-publisher-specific URI among the plurality of different coupon-and-publisher-specific URIs,
- the first coupon-and-publisher-specific URI is included in a first webpage of the first publisher website;
- a first request to the first coupon-and-publisher-specific URI causes both the first customized content and the coupon code to be returned for display,
- the second publisher website is associated with a second coupon-and-publisher-specific URI among the plurality of different coupon-and-publisher-specific URIs,
- the second coupon-and-publisher-specific URI is included in a second webpage of the second publisher website, and
- a second request to the second coupon-and-publisher-specific URI causes both the second customized content and the coupon code to be returned for display;
- receiving, with the computer system, a first indication that the first request was made to the first coupon-and-publisher-specific URI and storing data based on the first indication in memory;
- and
- receiving, with the computer system, a second indication that the second request was made to the second coupon-and-publisher-specific URI and storing data based on the second indication in memory.
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A method, comprising:
- obtaining, with a computer system, a coupon code;
- making the coupon code available via a plurality of different coupon-and-publisher-specific uniform resource identifier (URIs), each of the URIs corresponding to a different publisher website;
- customizing, with the computer system, content to be presented in users' web browsers with the coupon code for each of the plurality of different publisher websites, wherein:
- resulting customized content comprises first customized content associated with a first publisher website among the plurality of different publisher websites, and second customized content associated with a second publisher website among the plurality of different publisher websites, and
- the second customized content is different from the first customized content,
- the first publisher website is associated with a first coupon-and-publisher-specific URI among the plurality of different coupon-and-publisher-specific URIs,
- the first coupon-and-publisher-specific URI is included in a first webpage of the first publisher website;
- a first request to the first coupon-and-publisher-specific URI causes both the first customized content and the coupon code to be returned for display,
- the second publisher website is associated with a second coupon-and-publisher-specific URI among the plurality of different coupon-and-publisher-specific URIs,
- the second coupon-and-publisher-specific URI is included in a second webpage of the second publisher website, and
- a second request to the second coupon-and-publisher-specific URI causes both the second customized content and the coupon code to be returned for display;
- receiving, with the computer system, a first indication that the first request was made to the first coupon-and-publisher-specific URI and storing data based on the first indication in memory;
- and
- receiving, with the computer system, a second indication that the second request was made to the second coupon-and-publisher-specific URI and storing data based on the second indication in memory.
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