US 11,961,129 B2Granted

Systems and techniques for computer-enabled geo-targeted product reservation for secure and authenticated online reservations

Assigneeadidas AG

InventorsGordon Gibson Lanpher, Roger Brandon Beaty, Jonathan Matthew Shaw, Katharine Reinhold, Ryan Robert O. Malia, Megan Murphy Millard, Simon Atkins, Todd Ames

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Abstract

Systems and methods disclosed herein provide a geo-targeted online reservation system that ensures authenticity of customer devices requesting reservations by generating reservations only if threshold authentication conditions are satisfied. For example, a computing device registered with a server system receives inputs for requesting a reservation of a limited release product and for configuring the product. To authenticate the computing device, the server device transmits an electronic message to the computing device requesting the computing device to respond. A response to the message is one threshold authentication condition for generating the reservation. Upon determining that one or more threshold authentication conditions are satisfied, the server device generates a reservation for the product.

Claims20

Dependent claims

A non-transitory computer-readable medium comprising program code that is executable by one or more processors of a mobile device for causing the one or more processors to perform operations including:

generating, via a mobile application on the mobile device, a graphical user interface depicting products for sale by a retailer and graphical options corresponding to the products, the graphical options being selectable by a user to reserve the products;
receiving, via the mobile application, a selection from the user of one of the graphical options for reserving a particular product among the products depicted in the graphical user interface;
transmitting, by the mobile application, a request to a server system to create a reservation for the particular product, wherein the server system is configured to:
in response to receiving the request, transmit an electronic communication to the mobile device using a communication channel outside the mobile application for authenticating the reservation, to protect against a bot reserving the particular product, wherein the electronic communication includes one or more details of the reservation;
and
prevent the reservation from being completed at least until a reply to the electronic communication is received from the mobile device;
receiving, by the mobile device and via the communication channel outside the mobile application, the electronic communication from the server system;
transmitting, by the mobile device, the reply to the electronic communication to the server system for authenticating the reservation;
and
updating, by the mobile application, the graphical user interface to include a reservation confirmation for the particular product.

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A method comprising:

generating, by a mobile application executing on a mobile device, a graphical user interface depicting products for sale by a retailer and graphical options corresponding to the products, the graphical options being selectable by a user to reserve the products;
receiving, by the mobile application, a selection from the user of one of the graphical options for reserving a particular product among the products depicted in the graphical user interface;
transmitting, by the mobile application, a request to a server system to create a reservation for the particular product, wherein the server system is configured to:
in response to receiving the request, transmit an electronic communication to the mobile device using a communication channel outside the mobile application for authenticating the reservation, to protect against a bot reserving the particular product, wherein the electronic communication includes one or more details of the reservation;
and
prevent the reservation from being completed at least until a reply to the electronic communication is received from the mobile device;
receiving, by the mobile device and via the communication channel outside the mobile application, the electronic communication from the server system;
transmitting, by the mobile device, the reply to the electronic communication to the server system for authenticating the reservation;
and
updating, by the mobile application, the graphical user interface to include a reservation confirmation for the particular product.

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A system comprising:

one or more processors;
and
a non-transitory computer-readable medium comprising program code that is executable by the one or more processors for causing the one or more processors to perform operations including:
generating, via a mobile application, a graphical user interface depicting products for sale by a retailer and graphical options corresponding to the products, the graphical options being selectable by a user to reserve the products;
receiving, via the mobile application, a selection from the user of one of the graphical options for reserving a particular product among the products depicted in the graphical user interface;
transmitting, via the mobile application, a request to a server system to create a reservation for the particular product, wherein the server system is configured to:
in response to receiving the request, transmit an electronic communication to the user using a communication channel outside the mobile application for authenticating the reservation, to protect against a bot reserving the particular product, wherein the electronic communication includes one or more details of the reservation;
and
prevent the reservation from being completed at least until a reply to the electronic communication is received from the user;
and
updating, via the mobile application, the graphical user interface to include a reservation confirmation for the particular product.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application: 17/709,327Filed 30 Mar 2022 · continuation
Priority: 15 Jun 2015
Published: US 2023/0084273 A116 Mar 2023
Granted: 16 Apr 2024
Term ends: Not estimatedThe source records don’t support an estimate.

Classification17 codes

G06Q 30/0601
Buying, selling or leasing transactions: electronic shopping [e-shopping]
G06F 21/31
Authentication, i.e. establishing the identity or authorisation of security principals: user authentication
G06Q 20/3224
Aspects of commerce using mobile devices [M-devices]: transactions dependent on location of M-devices
G06Q 20/3255
Using wireless networks: using mobile network messaging services for payment, e.g. SMS

Family

Application62/180,022Us provisional application · filed 15 Jun 2015
Application15/183,123Parent of this continuation · filed 15 Jun 2016
Application16/298,577Parent of this continuation · filed 11 Mar 2019
US 10,275,823 B2Parent of this continuation · filed 30 Apr 2019
Application16/910,983Parent of this continuation · filed 24 Jun 2020
US 10,970,761 B2Parent of this continuation · filed 6 Apr 2021
US 2023/0084273 A1Pre-grant publication · published 16 Mar 2023
US 11,321,751 B2Parent of this continuation
US 2016/0364790 A1Published application
US 2019/0205969 A1Published application
US 2020/0320614 A1Published application
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