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US 2015/0106197 A1Published application
Crowdsourced incentives and management of same
AssigneeCox Target Media, Inc.
InventorsLoren C. Bendele, Joseph S. Zulli, Christopher S. Tyler
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Abstract
Aspects of the disclosure related to configuration, delivery, and/or consumption of commercial incentives for products and/or services. In certain aspects, promotional content that may be related to a commercial incentive can be delivered and/or consumed.
Claims23
A method, comprising:
- receiving, at a system comprising at least one processor and at least one memory device, incentive information from a plurality of sources, the incentive information comprising information indicative of financial incentives associated with respective products;
- configuring, at the system, a storage structure comprising a plurality of records representative of at least a portion of the incentive information;
- determining, at the system, a benefit record that matches at least one of the plurality of records;
- and
- updating, at the system, at least one of the plurality of sources based at least in part on at least a portion of the storage structure.
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A system, comprising:
- at least one memory device having instructions encoded thereon;
- and
- at least one processor functionally coupled to the at least one memory and configured, by the instructions,
- to receive incentive information from a plurality of sources, the incentive information comprising information indicative of financial incentives associated with respective products;
- to configure a storage structure comprising a plurality of records representative of at least a portion of the incentive information;
- to determine a benefit record that matches at least one of the plurality of records;
- and
- to update at least one of the plurality of sources based at least in part on at least a portion of the storage structure.
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A method, comprising:
- receiving, by a computing device, a request for incentive information associated with a product, the incentive information being indicative of a financial incentive associated with the product;
- accessing, by the computing device, at least the incentive information from an incentive repository;
- and
- conveying, by the computing device, at least the incentive information that is accessed.
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A computing device, comprising:
- at least one memory device having instructions encoded thereon;
- and
- at least one processor functionally coupled to the at least one memory and configured, by the instructions,
- to receive a request for incentive information associated with a product, the incentive information being indicative of a financial incentive associated with the product;
- to access at least the incentive information from an incentive repository;
- and
- to present at least the accessed incentive information.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.