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US 8,396,772 B2Granted
Integration of gift card services for mobile devices and social networking services
AssigneeTransaction Wireless, Inc.
InventorBasil Munir Abifaker
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Abstract
Methods and apparatus, including computer program products, for social networking services integrated with gift card services. In general, a profile of a member of a social networking service may be presented with one or more merchant credit services for prepaid merchant account credit, data characterizing a request to provide a credit service from the merchant credit services and a mobile phone number associated with an intended recipient of the first credit service may be received, and a message may be caused to be sent to the mobile phone number, where the message characterizes provision of the first credit service to the intended recipient. Interest in the credit service may be tracked and associated with a loyalty indicator associated with the member.
Claims27
A method of implementation related to integration of social networking services and gift card services by one or more data processors, the method comprising:
- presenting, by at least one data processor to a first user, a profile of a selected member of a social networking service concurrently with a list of a plurality of merchant credit services of prepaid merchant account credit, wherein the social networking service providing at least one website in which a plurality of users interact with profiles of members of the social networking service via a graphical user interface, at least some of the users being members of the social networking service, the profiles being generated by each of the respective members, the at least one website page providing at least one graphical user interface element to allow the first user to add or modify content displayed on the at least one website page, the selected member differing from the first user;
- receiving, by at least one data processor, data generated by the first user characterizing a request of further information regarding a first credit service from the list of the merchant credit services, wherein the data characterizing the request received through an interface presenting the profile of the member with the list of one or more merchant credit services;
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- increasing, by at least one data processor, a loyalty indicator associated with the selected member in response to receive the characterized data of further information regarding the first credit service, the loyalty indicator being associated with an account of the selected member with the first credit service of loyalty-based services and being redeemable to get incentives associated with the account.
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A computer-implemented method of implementation related to integration of social networking services and gift card services, the method comprising:
- associating, by a gift card server, a first user with a plurality of social networking services;
- associating, by the gift card server, the first user with a plurality of gift card providers, the first user having a loyalty account associated with each gift card provider;
- rendering, on a client computing system remotely coupled to the gift card server, to each of the plurality of social networking services associated with the first user using the user associations, at least one website page including a profile of the first user at such social networking service, wherein the profile including graphical user interface elements corresponding to each of the plurality of gift card providers, and wherein the social networking service providing at least one website in which a plurality of users interact with profiles of members of the social networking service via a graphical user interface, at least some of the users other than the first user being members of the social networking service, the profiles being generated by each of the respective members, the at least one website page including a graphical user interface element associated with each of gift providers, the at least one website page providing at least one graphical user interface element to allow a user to add or modify content displayed on the at least one website page;
- monitoring, by the corresponding social networking service, a number of clicks associated with each of the gift card providers on each of the social networking service website pages;
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- sending, by the gift card server, data characterizing the number of monitored clicks of a particular gift card provider account to a loyalty processor corresponding to such gift card provider, wherein the loyalty processor increasing a loyalty indicator associated with the corresponding account of the first user, the loyalty indicator being redeemable to get rewards associated with the account.
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A computer program product of implementation related to integration of social networking services and gift card services, embodied in a non-transitory computer-readable storage medium, the computer program product being operable to cause data processing apparatus to perform operations comprising:
- presenting at least one website page of a social networking service including a profile of a selected member of the social networking service, the at least one website page concurrently displaying one or more merchant credit services of prepaid merchant account credit, wherein the social networking service providing at least one website in which a plurality of users interact with profiles of members of the social networking service via a graphical user interface, at least some of the users being members of the social networking service, the profiles being generated by each of the respective members, the at least one website page including a graphical user interface element associated with each of the one or more merchant credit services, the at least one website page providing at least one graphical user interface element to allow the purchaser to add or modify content displayed on the at least one website page;
- receiving, via the graphical user interface, a selection of one of the graphical user interface elements associated with a corresponding merchant credit service;
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- transmitting a message to the selected member characterizing provision of the first credit service.
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A computer-implemented method of implementation related to integration of social networking services and gift card services, the method comprising:
- presenting, in a graphical user interface to a purchaser, at least one website page including a profile of a selected member of a social networking service and including one or more merchant credit services of prepaid merchant account credit, wherein the social networking service providing at least one website in which a plurality of users interact with profiles of members of the social networking service via a graphical user interface, the profiles being generated by each of the respective members and including interests of such members, each merchant credit service having an associated graphical user interface element displayed within the graphical user interface, at least some of the users being members of the social networking service, the purchaser being different than the selected member, the at least one website page providing at least one graphical user interface element to allow the purchaser to add or modify content displayed on the at least one website page;
- receiving data generated by the purchaser obtained via the graphical user interface characterizing a request to provide a first credit service from the merchant credit services and a mobile phone number associated with an intended recipient of the first credit service, the intended recipient being different than the selected member, the request being initiated by activation of one of the graphical user interface element in the graphical user interface;
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- causing a message characterizing provision of the first credit service to the intended recipient;
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- wherein the presented one or more merchant credit services of prepaid merchant account credit are selected based on the interests or location of the selected member and dynamically generated each time the profile is presented to the purchaser.
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A computer program product of implementation related to integration of social networking services and gift card services, embodied in a non-transitory computer-readable storage medium, the computer program product being operable to cause data processing apparatus to perform operations comprising:
- presenting, to a first user, a profile of a selected member of a social networking service concurrently with a list of a plurality of merchant credit services of prepaid merchant account credit, wherein the social networking service providing at least one website in which a plurality of users interact with profiles of members of the social networking service via a graphical user interface, at least some of the users being members of the social networking service, the profiles being generated by each of the respective members, the at least one website page providing at least one graphical user interface element to allow a user to add or modify content displayed on the at least one website page;
- receiving data generated by the first characterizing a request of further information regarding a first credit service from the list of the merchant credit services, wherein the data characterizing the request received through an interface presenting the profile of the member with the list of one or more merchant credit services;
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- increasing a loyalty indicator associated with the selected member in response to receive the characterized data of further information regarding the first credit service, the loyalty indicator being associated with an account of the selected member with the first credit service of loyalty-based services and being redeemable for rewards associated with the account.
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A method of integration of social networking services and gift card services, the method comprising:
- presenting at least one website page of a social networking service including a profile of a selected member of the social networking service, the at least one website page concurrently displaying one or more merchant credit services of prepaid merchant account credit, wherein social networking service providing at least one website in which a plurality of users interact with profiles of members of the social networking service via a graphical user interface, at least some of the users being members of the social networking service, the profiles being generated by each of the respective members, the at least one website page including a graphical user interface element associated with each of the one or more merchant credit services, the at least one website page providing at least one graphical user interface element to allow the purchaser to add or modify content displayed on the at least one website page;
- receiving, via the graphical user interface, a selection of one of the graphical user interface elements associated with a corresponding merchant credit service;
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- transmitting a message to the selected member characterizing provision of the first credit service.
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A system of integration of social networking services and gift card services comprising:
- at least one data processor;
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- memory storing instructions, which when executed by the at least one data processor, result in operations comprising:
- presenting at least one website page of a social networking service including a profile of a selected member of the social networking service, the at least one website page concurrently displaying one or more merchant credit services of prepaid merchant account credit, wherein social networking service providing at least one website in which a plurality of users interact with profiles of members of the social networking service via a graphical user interface, at least some of the users being members of the social networking service, the profiles being generated by each of the respective members, the at least one website page including a graphical user interface element associated with each of the one or more merchant credit services, the at least one website page providing at least one graphical user interface element to allow the purchaser to add or modify content displayed on the at least one website page;
- receiving, via the graphical user interface, a selection of one of the graphical user interface elements associated with a corresponding merchant credit service;
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- transmitting a message to the selected member characterizing provision of the first credit service.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.