Providing single-use offers
AssigneeRetailMeNot, Inc.
InventorsMichael Thomas Georgoff, Scott Jason Throndson, Jeffrey Ryan Rego
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Abstract
Provided is a process, including: obtaining an offer issued by a merchant, the offer being redeemable on-line, at the merchant's website, in-store, at a physical location of the merchant, or both; obtaining a plurality of single-use offer codes associated with the offer; receiving a request for a single-use offer code, the request having a phone number; sending to the phone number, via a text messaging service, a text message comprising a uniform resource identifier (URI) to a select single-use offer code of the plurality single-use offer codes; and sending the single-use offer code to a consumer user device in response to a user selection of the URI.
Claims20
An affiliate-network system configured to act as an intermediary between merchants issuing coupons or other offers and publishers promoting the offers to consumers, the affiliate-network system being configured to distribute and track usage of both on-line offers and in-store offers, the system comprising:
- one or more processors;
- non-transitory tangible computer-readable memory storing instructions that when executed by one or more of the one or more processors effectuate operations comprising:
- obtaining an offer issued by a merchant, the offer being redeemable both on-line, at the merchant's website, in-store, at a physical location of the merchant, or a combination thereof;
- obtaining a plurality of single-use offer codes associated with the offer, each of the plurality of single-use offer codes being redeemable for a single transaction;
- receiving, via a network, a request for a single-use offer code, the request comprising a phone number;
- sending to the phone number, via a text messaging service, a text message comprising a uniform resource identifier (URI) to a select single-use offer code of the plurality single-use offer codes;
- and
- sending the select single-use offer code to a consumer user device in response to a user selection of the URI on the consumer user device.
A method, comprising:
- receiving at an affiliate-network system, a request for a single-use offer code of a single-use offer, the request comprising a phone number, the affiliate-network system comprising one or more processors;
- sending to the phone number, via a text messaging service, a text message comprising a uniform resource identifier (URI) to a select single-use offer code of a plurality single-use offer codes;
- receiving at the affiliate-network system a user selection of the URI from a consumer user device;
- and
- sending single-use offer code content having the select single-use offer code to the consumer device in response to the user selection of the URI.
An affiliate-network system configured to act as an intermediary between merchants issuing coupons or other offers and publishers promoting the offers to consumers, the affiliate-network system being configured to distribute and track usage of both on-line offers and in-store offers, the system comprising:
- one or more processors;
- non-transitory tangible computer-readable memory storing instructions that when executed by one or more of the one or more processors effectuate operations comprising:
- obtaining an offer issued by a merchant, the offer being redeemable both on-line, at the merchant's website, in-store, at a physical location of the merchant, or a combination thereof;
- obtaining a plurality of single-use offer codes associated with the offer, each of the plurality of single-use offer codes being redeemable for a single transaction;
- receiving from a consumer user device, via a network, a request for a single-use offer code, the request comprising a device identifier that uniquely identifiers the consumer user device;
- sending to the consumer user device, via the network, a uniform resource identifier (URI) to a select single-use offer code of the plurality single-use offer codes;
- and
- sending to the consumer user device, over the network, the select single-use offer code in response to a user selection of the URI.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.