Groupon had 17 patents in ecommerce during Q2 2024. Groupon Inc’s patents filed in Q2 2024 focus on innovative methods for electronic communications based on clustering and filtering, data record compression using graph-based techniques, facilitating a learning user interface with dynamic icons, providing proximity-based messages using geofencing, and aggregating merchandise content for simplified purchasing actions on computing devices. GlobalData’s report on Groupon gives a 360-degree view of the company including its patenting strategy. Buy the report here.
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Groupon had no grants in ecommerce as a theme in Q2 2024.
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Application: Method and apparatus for providing electronic communications (Patent ID: US20240193639A1)
The patent filed by Groupon Inc. relates to methods, systems, and apparatuses for providing electronic communications to client devices based on clustering and filtering candidates for inclusion in the electronic communications using programmatically generated correlation metrics and thresholds associated with the clustering. The apparatus described in the patent includes processors and memory storing instructions to receive promotion recommendation inquiries, identify promotion transaction information, generate promotion clusters, reduce clusters based on consumer purchases, determine correlation metrics, filter clusters based on correlation thresholds, remove invalid promotions, select promotion recommendations, and transmit electronic communications to consumer devices for display.
The patent also covers aspects such as programmatically generated likelihood of consumer purchases, success rates, conversion rates, and evaluation of relationships within promotion clusters. It further includes filtering out invalid promotions based on criteria like limited quantity, expiration date, time, or location. The method described involves receiving promotion inquiries, identifying transaction information, generating clusters, reducing clusters based on consumer purchases, determining correlation metrics, filtering based on thresholds, removing invalid promotions, selecting recommendations, and transmitting communications for display on consumer devices. The patent also addresses the use of promotion recommendation APIs for external devices to submit inquiries, as well as the consideration of consumer characteristics like age and location in the recommendation process.
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