Top gamer notifications
AssigneeAmerican Express Travel Related Services Company, Inc.
InventorsHans-Jurgen Greiner, Mallikarj U. Hiremath, Kevin H. Ringger, Mukund Shankar Simha
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Abstract
The system may transmit a signal originating from a BLUETOOTH low energy (“BLE”) beacon at a merchant location. The signal may include a first identifier associated with the merchant location and a merchant device. A customer device may receive the signal within a predetermined distance of the BLE beacon. The system may receive a transmission sent by the customer device in response to the signal from the BLE beacon. The transmission may include a second identifier associated with the user. The system may identify the user associated with the customer device based on the second identifier. The user may be at the merchant location.
Claims20
A method, comprising:
- acquiring, by a computer based system, a score from a mobile gaming app of a customer device associated with a customer;
- determining, by the computer based system and based on the score, that the customer is a top gamer associated with a merchant at a merchant location;
- identifying, by the computer based system, the customer with a top gamer identifier;
- transmitting, by the computer based system, the top gamer identifier to the mobile gaming app on the customer device;
- determining, by the computer based system, that the customer is on a list of customers of interest associated with the merchant at the merchant location;
- determining, by the computer based system, a direct communication between a merchant device of the merchant and the customer device should be established, based on the customer being on the list of the customers of interest and the top gamer identifier;
- and
- notifying, by the computer based system, the merchant device to establish the direct communication between the merchant device and the customer device,
- wherein a discount is provided for display on the customer device while the customer device is in the merchant location.
A computer based system, comprising:
- a processor;
- and
- a non-transitory memory configured to communicate with the processor, the non- transitory memory having instructions stored thereon that when executed by the processor cause the processor to perform operations comprising:
- acquiring, by the processor, a score from a mobile gaming app of a customer device associated with a customer;
- determining, by the processor and based on the score, that the customer is a top gamer associated with a merchant at a merchant location;
- identifying, by the processor, the customer with a top gamer identifier;
- transmitting, by the processor, the top gamer identifier to the mobile gaming app on the customer device;
- determining, by the processor, that the customer is on a list of customers of interest associated with the merchant at the merchant location;
- determining, by the processor, a direct communication between a merchant device of the merchant and the customer device should be established, based on the customer being on the list of the customers of interest and the top gamer identifier;
- and
- notifying, by the processor, the merchant device to establish the direct communication between the merchant device and the customer device,
- wherein a discount is provided for display on the customer device while the customer device is in the merchant location.
A non-transitory computer program product having computer-executable instructions stored thereon that, if executed by a computer based system, causes the computer based system to be capable of performing operations comprising:
- acquiring, by the computer based system, a score from a mobile gaming app of a customer device associated with a customer;
- determining, by the computer based system and based on the score, that the customer is a top gamer associated with a merchant at a merchant location;
- identifying, by the computer based system, the customer with a top gamer identifier;
- transmitting, by the computer based system, the top gamer identifier to the mobile gaming app on the customer device;
- determining, by the computer based system, that the customer is on a list of customers of interest associated with the merchant at the merchant location;
- determining, by the computer based system, a direct communication between a merchant device of the merchant and the customer device should be established, based on the customer being on the list of the customers of interest and the top gamer identifier;
- and
- notifying, by the computer based system, the merchant device to establish the direct communication between the merchant device and the customer device,
- wherein a discount is provided for display on the customer device while the customer device is in the merchant location.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.