Apparatus and Method for Verifying Criteria of Coupon Users
OwnerDante Monteverdeinventor
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Abstract
A method, system, apparatus and computer program to establish whether a user will likely conduct repeat business with a vendor presenting a commercial offer. If the system determines the user is likely to conduct repeat business with the vendor, the system will present the offer in a first format, and if the system determines the user is less likely do conduct repeat business with the vendor, the system will present the offer in a second format. In the second format, the offer is either more expensive or less prominently displayed as compared to the first format.
Claims21
A method of presenting a commercial offer to a user comprising:
- establishing a geographic point of interest of the user;
- determining a target area of the user based on the geographic point of interest;
- collecting a commercial offer from a vendor;
- determining, by a processor, whether the vendor of the commercial offer is associated with the target area;
- presenting the commercial offer to the user in a first format only if the vendor is associated with the target area, and presenting the commercial offer in a second format only if the vendor is not associated with the target area.
An apparatus for receiving a commercial offer from a vendor comprising:
- a computer-readable medium adapted to store data;
- a processor adapted to execute a computer program that determines a target area of a user based on at least one of a geographic point of interest input by the user and a geographic point of interest determined by the computer program;
- a transceiver adapted to receive information identifying the target area from an external server and receive a transmitted commercial offer from the server, wherein the commercial offer is from a vendor associated with the target area;
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- a display adapted to present the commercial offer to the user,
- wherein the processor is adapted to cause the transmission of the commercial offer to the user in a first format only if the vendor is associated with the target area, and cause the transmission of the commercial offer in a second format only if the nevdor is not associated with the target area.
A method of presenting commercial offers from a vendor to a user comprising:
- allowing the user to request a first commercial offer from a server;
- recording whether the user conducts business a predetermined number of times with the vendor after receiving the first commercial offer;
- allowing the user to request a second commercial offer from the server after the user requests the first commercial offer from the server;
- causing, by the server, the delivery of the second commercial offer to the user in a first format only if the user previously conducted business with the vendor the predetermined number of times after receiving the first commercial offer, and causing, by the server, the delivery of the second commercial offer to the user in a second format only if the user previously conducted business with the vendor less than the predetermined number of times after receiving the first commercial offer.
A method of presenting a commercial offer to a user comprising:
- establishing a geographic point of interest of the user by allowing the user to input geographic locations into a database;
- determining a target area of the user based on the geographic point of interest;
- collecting a commercial offer from a vendor;
- determining, by a processor, whether the vendor of the commercial offer is associated with the target area;
- presenting the commercial offer to the user in a first format only if the vendor is associated with the target area, and presenting the commercial offer in a second format only if the vendor is not associated with the target area;
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- verifying the target area by a member including one or more of sending a certified letter, obtaining identifying information from a card of the user, and obtaining identifying information from a utility organization doing business with the user.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.