Seamless promotion redemption

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-11574342-B2
Application number	US-201916726436-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Dec 24, 2019
Priority date	Apr 9, 2014
Publication date	Feb 7, 2023
Grant date	Feb 7, 2023

Abstract

Systems and related methods of providing seamless transactions, including payments and promotion redemptions, are discussed herein. Some embodiments may provide for a system including a communication beacon and one or more servers. The communication beacon may be configured to communicate with consumer devices via a direct wireless connection when the consumer devices are within a wireless direct communicable range of the communication beacon. The one or more servers may be configured to associate the communication with a merchant and receive consumer presence data from the communication beacon such that consumer presence at the merchant may be determined. In response, the one or more servers may be configured to perform a seamless transaction on behalf the consumer that allows the consumer to provide payments or redeem promotions, among other things, simply by self-identifying with the merchant while carrying the consumer device.

First claim

That which is claimed:

1. A system for providing a seamless transaction, the system comprising:
one or more servers; and
a communication beacon having a fixed location in communication with the one or more servers, the one or more servers configured to:
receive consumer presence data indicating that a consumer device is within a direct communicable range of the communication beacon based at least in part on a consumer device wireless signal strength value associated with the consumer device;
associate the communication beacon with a merchant based on beacon identifier data corresponding with the merchant;
determine merchant information based at least in part on the beacon identifier data;
provide at least a portion of the merchant information to the consumer device;
authenticate the consumer device based at least in part on at least one biometric identifier in authentication data received from the consumer device;
in response to authenticating the consumer device based at least in part on the at least one biometric identifier, cause the seamless transaction between the consumer device and the merchant based at least in part on the consumer presence data indicating that the consumer device is within the direct communicable range of the communication beacon;
receiving, from the communication beacon, an indication that the consumer device is no longer within the direct communicable range of the communication beacon; and
responsive to the indication that the consumer device is no longer within the direct communicable range of the communication beacon, generate and provide a consumer review interface for display by the consumer device.

2. The system of claim 1 , wherein causing the seamless transaction includes identifying payment data associated with a consumer account.

3. The system of claim 2 , wherein the payment data comprises one or more redeemable promotions.

4. The system of claim 1 , wherein the one or more servers are further configured to:
transmit, based at least in part on the consumer presence data, an impression of a promotion to the consumer device.

5. The system of claim 4 , wherein the consumer presence data indicates that the consumer device is outside a shop associated with the merchant, and wherein the impression of the promotion comprises an outside-of-shop promotion.

6. The system of claim 4 , wherein the merchant information further comprises one or more of item data associated with the merchant, a merchant webpage, a merchant location, and merchant business hours.

7. The system of claim 4 , wherein the merchant information comprises item data and the one or more servers are further configured to:
provide a merchant interface to a merchant device for entry of the item data.

8. A machine-implemented method for providing a seamless transaction comprising:
receiving, by processing circuitry of one or more servers, consumer presence data from a communication beacon having a fixed location indicating that a consumer device is within a direct communicable range of the communication beacon based at least in part on a consumer device wireless signal strength value associated with the consumer device;
associating, by the processing circuitry of the one or more servers, the communication beacon with a merchant based on beacon identifier data identifying the communication beacon with the merchant;
determining, by the processing circuitry of the one or more servers, merchant information based at least in part on the beacon identifier data;
providing, by the processing circuitry of the one or more servers, the merchant information to the consumer device;
authenticating, by the processing circuitry of the one or more servers, the consumer device based at least in part on at least one biometric identifier in authentication data received from the consumer device;
in response to authenticating the consumer device based at least in part on the at least one biometric identifier, causing, by the processing circuitry of the one or more servers, the seamless transaction between the consumer device and the merchant based at least in part on the consumer presence data indicating that the consumer device is within the direct communicable range of the communication beacon;
receiving, by the processing circuitry of the one or more servers, from the communication beacon, an indication that the consumer device is no longer within the direct communicable range of the communication beacon; and
responsive to the indication that the consumer device is no longer within the direct communicable range of the communication beacon, generating and providing, by the processing circuitry of the one or more servers, a consumer review interface for display by the consumer device.

9. The machine-implemented method of claim 8 , wherein causing the seamless transaction includes identifying payment data associated with a consumer account.

10. The machine-implemented method of claim 9 , wherein the payment data comprises one or more redeemable promotions.

11. The machine-implemented method of claim 8 , further comprising:
transmitting, by the processing circuitry of the one or more servers, based at least in part on the consumer presence data, an impression of a promotion to the consumer device.

12. The machine-implemented method of claim 11 , wherein the consumer presence data indicates that the consumer device is outside a shop associated with the merchant, and wherein the impression of the promotion comprises an outside-of-shop promotion.

13. The machine-implemented method of claim 11 , wherein the merchant information further comprises one or more of item data associated with the merchant, a merchant webpage, a merchant location and merchant business hours.

14. The machine-implemented method of claim 11 , wherein the merchant information comprises item data and the machine-implemented method further comprises:
providing, by the processing circuitry of the one or more servers, a merchant interface to a merchant device for entry of the item data.

15. A computer program product for providing a seamless transaction, the computer program product comprising computer-readable program instructions stored on a non-transitory computer readable medium, the computer-readable program instructions configured, upon execution by processing circuitry of one or more servers, to:
receive consumer presence data indicating that a consumer device is within a direct communicable range of a communication beacon based at least in part on a consumer device wireless signal strength value associated with the consumer device;
associate the communication beacon with a merchant based on beacon identifier data corresponding with the merchant;
determine merchant information based at least in part on the beacon identifier data;
provide at least a portion of the merchant information to the consumer device;
authenticate the consumer device based at least in part on at least one biometric identifier in authentication data received from the consumer device;
in response to authenticating the consumer device based at least in part on the at least one biometric identifier, cause the seamless transaction between the consumer device and the merchant based at least in part on the consumer presence data indicating that the consumer device is within the direct communicable range of the communication beacon;
receive, from the communication beacon, an indication that the consumer device is no longer within the direct communicable range of the communication beacon; and
responsive to the indication that the consumer device is no longer within the direct comm

Assignees

• Groupon Inc

Inventors

• Kim Benjamin

Classifications

• H04W4/02

  Services making use of location information · CPC title

• G06Q30/0269

  based on user profile or attribute · CPC title

• H04B7/26

  at least one of which is mobile · CPC title

• G06Q30/0267 Primary

  Wireless devices · CPC title

• G06Q30/0259

  based on store location · CPC title