US 2018/0121950 A1Published application

Reminding users of offers

AssigneeRetailMeNot, Inc.

InventorEithan Zilkha

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Abstract

Provided is a computer implemented process for reminding users of offers that were discovered by the user at one location when, at a later time, the user is at another location, the process including: displaying, with a mobile device, an offer and a reminder interface to indicate that the user requests themselves or another reminder recipient to be reminded of the offer when near another computing device of the reminder recipient; receiving an interaction with the reminder interface by the user and, in response, storing a reminder request in memory, the reminder request identifying the offer; obtaining data identifying the other computing device, a geographic area of the other computing device, or a wireless environment of the other computing device; detecting, with a processor of the mobile device, that the reminder recipient has interacted with the other computing device, entered the geographic area, or entered the wireless environment; and in response to the detection, presenting a notification reminding the reminder recipient of the offer.

Claims20

Dependent claims

A method of reminding a user, with reminder sent to a mobile computing device, to access content on another computing device, such as a desktop computer, when the mobile computing device detects proximity to the other computing device and customizing content accessed with the other computing device based on the reminder, the method comprising:

sending, via a network, with one or more processors, content including a plurality of content items;
after sending the content, receiving, via the network, with one or more processors, an indication that a user is to be reminded of a given one of the content items based on interaction with at least some of the content items;
determining, with one or more processors, a geolocation at which the user is to be reminded and a first computing device both to detect the user's presence at the geolocation and upon which the user is to be reminded;
receiving, with one or more processors, from an application executing on the first computing device, an indication that the user is at the geolocation;
in response to receiving the indication that the user is at the geolocation, with one or more processors, sending the reminder to the first computing device or accessing a reminder previously sent to the first computing device;
after sending or accessing the reminder, customizing, with one or more processors, content based on the given one of the content items for which the reminder was sent;
and
sending, via the network, with one or more processors, the customized content to a second computing device, different from the first computing device, such that the second computing device receives content customized as a result of the first computing device detecting that the user is at the geolocation.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application: 15/858,172Filed 29 Dec 2017
Priority: 11 Jun 2012
Published: 3 May 2018
Term ends: Not estimatedThe source records don’t support an estimate.

Classification16 codes

G06Q 30/0239
Discounts or incentives, e.g. coupons or rebates: online discounts or incentives
G06F 16/2455
Query processing: query execution
G06F 16/24575
With adaptation to user needs: using context
G06F 16/248
Querying: presentation of query results

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