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US 2020/0051107 A1Published application
Facilitating Consumer Payments And Redemptions Of Deal Offers
AssigneeGroupon, Inc.
InventorsBen Kim, Joshua Puckett, Andrey Zaytsev, Gene Alston, Richard Park, Thomas Joseph McConnell
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Abstract
Provided herein are systems, methods and computer readable storage media for facilitating payments for consumer transactions and redemption of deal offerings. In providing such functionality, the system can be configured to, for example, receive payment for one or more products, determine a deal voucher's current value and cause the redemption of the deal voucher.
Claims8
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A method of securing a transaction by one or more servers connected with a merchant system over a network, comprising:
- receiving payment transaction data indicative of a product from the merchant system via the network;
- receiving payment account identifier data to be used for the transaction from the merchant system via the network;
- retrieving voucher data indicative of a deal voucher based on the payment account identifier data, wherein the deal voucher data includes associations of stored deal vouchers with stored payment account identifier data that identify payment accounts used to purchase the stored deal vouchers;
- preceding a completion of the transaction, determining that the payment account identifier is associated with a payment account used to purchase the deal voucher based on the voucher data;
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- applying the deal voucher to the transaction.
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