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US 9,754,276 B2Granted
Digital content provided to a user at a physical location
AssigneePaypal, Inc.
InventorGerman Carlos Scipioni
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AssigneePaypal, Inc.
InventorGerman Carlos Scipioni
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A method for providing a promotion to a user to do commerce at a physical location includes offering a right to a particular piece of digital content to the user as an incentive to a commercial transaction that occurs at least partly at the physical location, discerning that the user is located at the physical location, and in response to the discerning, interacting with the user to provide the digital content to the user on a mobile device associated with the user.
A computer-implemented method, comprising:
A computer system, comprising:
A non-transitory machine-readable medium having stored thereon machine-readable instructions executable to cause a machine to perform operations comprising:
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Discounts or incentives, e.g. coupons or rebates: at point-of-sale [POS]
Marketing; Price estimation or determination; Fundraising: discounts or incentives, e.g. coupons or rebates
Information and communication technology [ict] specially adapted for administrative, commercial, financial, managerial
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Technical Field
The present disclosure generally relates to providing access to digital content and, more particularly, to providing access to digital content at specific physical locations.
Related Art
FIG. 1 is an illustration of an aspect of an example embodiment showing a user at a physical location receiving digital content from a content provider.
FIG. 2 is an illustration of an example process according to one embodiment.
FIG. 3 is an illustration of an example process according to one embodiment.
It is to be understood that the following disclosure provides many different embodiments, or examples, for implementing different features of the present disclosure. Specific examples of components and arrangements are described below to simplify the present disclosure. These are, of course, merely examples and are not intended to be limiting. Various features may be arbitrarily drawn in different scales for simplicity and clarity.
As the Internet continues to evolve, users become accustomed to receiving media on-line and on their mobile devices. Various embodiments provide techniques to use digital content as an incentive to commerce at a physical location. For instance, one embodiment include methods whereby a brick-and-mortar store offers access to digital content for users while those users are physically located in the store. Other example embodiments include methods whereby users accept an offer of digital content by another party while at a physical location and then receive that content. Yet another example includes embodiments such as provider-side and consumer-side applications and devices to provide and receive, respectively, the content.
Thus, various embodiments combine the digital realm with the physical realm. A user at a physical location participating in a brick-and-mortar channel of commerce receives digital content on a mobile device and, thus, also participates in an on-line, mobile channel of commerce.