Groupon had two patents in mobile during Q1 2024. Groupon Inc’s patents filed in Q1 2024 focus on providing prescient and adaptive point-of-sale services through electronic networks. The systems include generating digital consumer tokens, exchanging them for consumer data, and adapting point-of-sale interfaces based on consumer preferences. Additionally, the patents cover programmatically providing stored balance card information, performing transactions with stored balance cards, and using wallet accounts to cover overages in transactions. 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 mobile as a theme in Q1 2024.
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Application: Prescient and adaptive point-of-sale systems (Patent ID: US20240020671A1)
The patent filed by Groupon Inc. discusses systems, methods, and media for providing prescient and adaptive point-of-sale services through electronic networks. The system involves generating digital consumer tokens, associating them with consumer account records, providing them to consumer devices, receiving marketing information and inventory data from merchant devices, and creating point-of-sale interfaces based on this data. These interfaces adapt to consumer preferences and signals from consumer devices, allowing consumers to manage their electronic identity at various merchant locations.
The system further includes features such as determining menu items based on available ingredients and consumer data, ranking menu items based on consumer signals, excluding undesirable ingredients from menu item selections, providing warnings for menu items with undesirable ingredients, creating consumer profiles based on discretionary data, and offering different profiles to eligible merchants. The digital consumer tokens are generated independently of consumer identifying data and marketing information. The method and computer program product based on this patent involve similar steps of generating digital consumer tokens, associating them with consumer accounts, receiving marketing and inventory data, and creating adaptive point-of-sale interfaces for merchants and consumers. Overall, the patent aims to enhance the point-of-sale experience by leveraging consumer data and preferences to create personalized and adaptive interfaces for efficient and tailored service delivery.
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