Consumer price protection service
AssigneeParibus Co.
InventorsEric Robert Glyman, Karim Atiyeh, Mohammed Jassim AlMughrabi, Jennifer Ann Xia
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Abstract
Prices, rebates and/or coupons may be monitored with respect to goods and/or services purchased by consumers. When applicable, store policies for price adjustments, rebates, and/or coupons may be saved, and websites may be searched for these price adjustments, rebates, and/or coupons. When a price adjustment, rebate, and/or coupon is found for a product or service purchased by a consumer, the system may automatically submit a claim for the price adjustment, rebate, and/or coupon. When the money is received by the consumer, the company offering the consumer monitoring service may charge the consumer a portion thereof.
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A computer-implemented method, comprising:
- determining, by a computing system, that a user has purchased one or more products and/or services by monitoring an email account, an application, or both for information indicative that a purchase has been made;
- mapping, by the computing system, the one or more purchased products and/or services to one or more respective URLs on websites of retailers and/or service providers (RSPs);
- determining, by the computing system, whether price matching, a rebate, a coupon, or any combination thereof, is available for the one or more purchased products and/or services;
- checking, by the computing system, whether a lower price is found when price matching exists, whether a rebate is found, whether a coupon is found, or any combination thereof that is beyond a predetermined threshold;
- and
- when beyond the predetermined threshold, automatically generating and submitting a refund claim, by the computing system, for a difference in price, a rebate amount, a coupon amount, or any combination thereof.
A computer program embodied on a non-transitory computer-readable medium, the program configured to cause at least one processor to:
- determine whether price matching, a rebate, a coupon, or any combination thereof, is available for a product or service offered by a retailer and/or service provider (RSP) that is purchased by a user;
- check whether a lower price for the purchased product or service is found when price matching exists, whether a rebate is found, whether a coupon is found, or any combination thereof that is beyond a predetermined threshold;
- and
- when beyond the predetermined threshold, automatically generating and submitting a refund claim for a difference in price, a rebate amount, a coupon amount, or any combination thereof.
An apparatus, comprising:
- memory storing computer program instructions;
- and
- at least one processor configured to execute the computer program instructions, the at least one processor configured to:
- automatically generate and submit a refund claim for a product or service for a difference in price, a rebate amount, a coupon amount, or any combination thereof when beyond a predetermined threshold, wherein
- the refund claim is generated using multiple synonyms, different body contents, different message lengths, spelling errors, or any combination thereof.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.