Offer Privacy Controls
AssigneeTarget Brands, Inc.
InventorsAudrey Josephine Leicher, William John Bitunjac, Natalie Victoria Doyne, Sarah Roxanne Peterson
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Abstract
A user interface that requests offer information for an offer provided by a vendor is provided to the vendor's computing device. The offer information is received from the vendor's computing device where the offer information includes a vendor privacy setting that indicates whether the offer is private. A request is received from a consumer's computing device for available offers and a user interface containing the offer is provided to the consumer's computing device. An indication that the consumer selected the offer is received and the offer and the vendor privacy setting are stored.
Claims20
A method comprising:
- providing a user interface to a vendor's computing device that requests offer information for an offer provided by the vendor;
- receiving the offer information from the vendor's computing device, the offer information comprising a vendor privacy setting that indicates whether the offer is private;
- receiving a request from a consumer's computing device for available offers;
- providing to the consumer's computing device a user interface comprising the offer provided by the vendor;
- receiving from the consumer's computing device an indication that the consumer selected the offer provided by the vendor;
- and
- storing the offer and the vendor privacy setting for the offer for the consumer.
A computing device comprising:
- a processor receiving an indication that a consumer has redeemed an offer during a purchase;
- the processor retrieving privacy settings for the offer from a memory, wherein the privacy settings comprise a privacy setting established by a vendor who made the offer;
- and
- the processor using the privacy settings to determine whether to publish information indicating that the consumer redeemed the offer.
A storage medium having computer-executable instructions stored thereon that when executed by a processor cause the processor to perform steps comprising:
- providing a user interface to a computing device that allows selection of an offer;
- receiving a selection of an offer from the computing device;
- accessing at least one privacy setting for the offer stored in memory;
- and
- determining whether to post information about the selection of the offer based on the at least one privacy setting for the offer.
The storage medium 17 further comprising receiving an indication that an offer has been redeemed, accessing the at least one privacy setting for the offer stored in memory, and determining whether to post information about the redemption of the offer based on the at least one privacy setting for the offer.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.