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US 8,554,655 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.
Claims54
A method of implementation related to social network services by one or more data processors, the method comprising:
- associating, by at least one data processor, at least one account of a user of merchant credit services of prepaid merchant account credit with two or more of social networking services;
- presenting, each of the social network services to a purchaser and by at least the one data processor, at least one website page of the social networking service including a profile of the user, in which the profile including one or more of the merchant credit services of the 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, and wherein the at least one website page including at least one graphical user interface element associated with each of the one or more merchant credit services, in which the at least one website page providing the at least one graphical user interface element to allowing the purchaser to add or modify content displayed on the at least one website page;
- receiving, via the graphical user interface and by at least one data processor, a selection of one of the graphical user interface elements associated with a corresponding merchant credit service;
- and
- transmitting, by at least one data processor, a message to the user characterizing provision of the corresponding merchant credit service.
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A method of implementation relate to social network services by one or more data processors, the method comprising:
- associating, by at least one data processor, at least one loyalty account of a user with two or more of social networking services;
- presenting, each of the social network services to a purchaser and by at least the one data processor, at least one website page of the social networking service including a profile of the user, in which the profile including data characterizing the at least one loyalty account, 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, and wherein the at least one website page including at least one graphical user interface element associated with each of the one or more merchant credit services, in which the at least one website page providing the at least one graphical user interface element to allow the purchaser add or modify content displayed on the at least one website page;
- receiving, via the graphical user interface and by at least one data processor, a selection of one of the graphical user interface elements associated with a loyalty account;
- and
- transmitting, by at least one data processor, a message to the user characterizing provision of a corresponding merchant credit service of the loyalty account.
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A method comprising:
- presenting, by at least one data processor to a purchaser, at least one website page of a social networking service including a profile of a selected member of the social networking service, in which the profile 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, at least some of the users being members of the social networking service, the profiles being generated by each of the respective members, and wherein the at least one website page including at least one graphical user interface element associated with each of the one or more merchant credit services, in which the at least one website page providing the 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 of the social networking service and by at least one data processor, user-generated input comprising payment information and recipient of a first credit service;
- and
- transmitting, by at least one data processor, a message to the selected member characterizing provision of the first credit service.
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A non-transitory computer program product storing instructions related to social networking service, which when executed by at least one data processor of at least one computing system, result in operations comprising:
- associating, by at least one data processor, at least one account of a user of merchant credit services of prepaid merchant account credit with two or more of social networking services;
- presenting, each of the social network services to a purchaser and by at least the one data processor, at least one website page of the social networking service including a profile of the user, in which the profile including one or more of the merchant credit services of the 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, and wherein the at least one website page including at least one graphical user interface element associated with each of the one or more merchant credit services, in which the at least one website page providing the 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;
- and
- transmitting a message to the user characterizing provision of the corresponding merchant credit service.
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A non-transitory computer program product storing instructions related to social networking service, which when executed by at least one data processor of at least one computing system, result in operations comprising:
- associating, by at least one data processor, at least one loyalty account of a user with two or more of social networking services;
- presenting, each of the social network services to a purchaser and by at least the one data processor, at least one website page of the social networking service including a profile of the user, in which the profile including data characterizing the at least one loyalty account, 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, and wherein the at least one website page including at least one graphical user interface element associated with each of the one or more merchant credit services, in which the at least one website page providing the at least one graphical user interface element to allow the purchaser 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 loyalty account;
- and
- transmitting a message to the user characterizing provision of a corresponding merchant credit service of the loyalty account.
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A non-transitory computer program product storing instructions related to social networking service, which when executed by at least one data processor of at least one computing system, result in operations comprising:
- presenting, by at least one data processor to a purchaser, at least one website page of a social networking service including a profile of a selected member of the social networking service, in which the profile 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, at least some of the users being members of the social networking service, the profiles being generated by each of the respective members, and wherein the at least one website page including at least one graphical user interface element associated with each of the one or more merchant credit services, in which the at least one website page providing the 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 of the social networking service, user-generated input comprising payment information and recipient of a first credit service;
- and
- transmitting a message to the selected member characterizing provision of the first credit service.
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A system related to social networking services comprising:
- at least one data processor forming part of at least one computing system;
- and
- memory storing instructions, which when executed by the at least one data processor of the at least one computing system, result in operations comprising:
- associating at least one account of a user of merchant credit services of prepaid merchant account credit with two or more of social networking services;
- presenting, each of the social network services to a purchaser, at least one website page of the social networking service including a profile of the user, in which the profile including one or more of the merchant credit services of the 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, and wherein the at least one website page including at least one graphical user interface element associated with each of the one or more merchant credit services, in which the at least one website page providing the 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;
- and
- transmitting a message to the user characterizing provision of the corresponding merchant credit service.
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A system related to social networking services comprising:
- at least one data processor forming part of at least one computing system;
- and
- memory storing instructions, which when executed by the at least one data processor of the at least one computing system, result in operations comprising:
- associating at least one loyalty account of a user with two or more of social networking services;
- presenting, each of the social network services to a purchaser, at least one website page of the social networking service including a profile of the user, in which the profile including data characterizing the at least one loyalty account, 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, and wherein the at least one website page including at least one graphical user interface element associated with each of the one or more merchant credit services, in which the at least one website page providing the at least one graphical user interface element to allow the purchaser 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 loyalty account;
- and
- transmitting a message to the user characterizing provision of a corresponding merchant credit service of the loyalty account.
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A system related to social networking services comprising:
- at least one data processor forming part of at least one computing system;
- and
- memory storing instructions, which when executed by the at least one data processor of the at least one computing system, result in operations comprising:
- presenting, to a purchaser, at least one website page of a social networking service including a profile of a selected member of the social networking service, in which the profile 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, at least some of the users being members of the social networking service, the profiles being generated by each of the respective members, and wherein the at least one website page including at least one graphical user interface element associated with each of the one or more merchant credit services, in which the at least one website page providing the 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 of the social networking service, user-generated input comprising payment information and recipient of a first credit service;
- and
- 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.