Patents Assigned to LivingSocial, Inc.
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Patent number: 11954730Abstract: A merchant system structures communications among merchants, partners, and customers. The merchant system may include a messaging component that organizes messages so that a manager can quickly navigate and understand the content of incoming messages. The messaging system also may categorize a user's profile so that a user may share profile information established at a first merchant with a second merchant.Type: GrantFiled: January 27, 2023Date of Patent: April 9, 2024Assignee: LIVINGSOCIAL, INC.Inventors: Eric Laird, Cara Maggioni, Kerry Lenahan, Timothy McCann
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Patent number: 11790425Abstract: A server receives a request for a deal from a client device of a merchant, the request for a deal including a merchant identifier. The server then accesses merchant information based on the merchant identifier, the merchant information including a merchant category and a merchant location. Additionally, the server obtains a set of candidate deals based on the merchant category and merchant location. The server then obtains historical information for each candidate deal, the historical information corresponding to one or more conversion rates of the candidate deal when the candidate deal was previously offered by one or more merchants. Next, the server determines a predicted conversion rate for each candidate deal, based on the historical information for the respective candidate deal and selects a deal based on the predicted conversion rates for the set of candidate deals.Type: GrantFiled: July 26, 2021Date of Patent: October 17, 2023Assignee: LIVINGSOCIAL, INC.Inventor: Mehrdad Bidgoli
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Patent number: 11694225Abstract: A system and method for optimizing advertisements for display to users comprising receiving a request for an advertisement wherein the request comprises information about a user to whom the advertisement is to be displayed; determining at least one community of which the user is a member; determining a conditional probability that the user will interact with the advertisement; responsive to the conditional probability exceeding a threshold, determining community data to present with the advertisement and providing for display to the user the advertisement and the community data; responsive to the providing of the advertisement, receiving an indication of activity at a client system related to the advertisement or community data; and storing the indication in a storage medium.Type: GrantFiled: January 13, 2022Date of Patent: July 4, 2023Assignee: LIVINGSOCIAL. INC.Inventors: Farhad Massoudi, David Robert Gentzel
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Patent number: 11687962Abstract: An online incentive network is optimized. Online incentive network data is accessed including data regarding sharing between users of the network from at least one database. Inputted parameters and network data are applied to one or more models for incentivized deal sharing to determine profitability of an incentivized sharing deal to offer to plurality of users via an online network for one or more products or services provided by a merchant. The incentivized sharing deal comprises a deal in which a user purchases a particular deal, and then when the user shares the particular deal with a threshold number of other users who also purchase the deal, the user receives an incentive. The parameters include a price of the deal; a proportion of the deal kept by the merchant or the online incentive network, and the number of incentivized users. An interface offers the incentivized sharing deal to users.Type: GrantFiled: September 13, 2021Date of Patent: June 27, 2023Assignee: LIVINGSOCIAL, INC.Inventors: Elena Zheleva, Joseph John Pfeiffer, III
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Patent number: 11593874Abstract: A merchant system structures communications among merchants, partners, and customers. The merchant system may include a messaging component that organizes messages so that a manager can quickly navigate and understand the content of incoming messages. The messaging system also may categorize a user's profile so that a user may share profile information established at a first merchant with a second merchant.Type: GrantFiled: March 27, 2020Date of Patent: February 28, 2023Assignee: LIVINGSOCIAL, INC.Inventors: Eric Laird, Cara Maggioni, Kerry Lenahan, Timothy McCann
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Patent number: 11562443Abstract: Systems and methods to integrate point of sale processing, online order processing, coupon management, WiFi access management, and supply chain and store management, etc. In one aspect, a central server provides point of sale, coupon management and other functions via browser based interfaces. The system provides a coupon to a customer to offer discounts to friends of the customer and/or rewards to the customer if the friends of the customer use the coupon. The system validates the coupon when the coupon is used at POS terminals of the system and tracks the usage of the coupons to select customers for targeting future coupons. In another aspect, the central server is configured to provide the customer with WiFi access at the retail location where the order of the customer is fulfilled and further configured to automatically log the customer into an account of the customer hosted on a third party server.Type: GrantFiled: September 18, 2020Date of Patent: January 24, 2023Assignee: LIVINGSOCIAL, INC.Inventors: Quinn McLaughlin, Ben Harris Lyon
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Patent number: 11488129Abstract: Systems and methods to integrate point of sale processing, online order processing, and supply chain and store management over the Internet. In one aspect, a central server provides point of sale, online order processing, and supply chain and store management functions via browser based interfaces. The system enables users to enter orders from remote locations for order fulfillment at brick and mortar retail locations, where the POS terminals configured based on the browser based interfaces can be changed into a self service mode to allow customers to place orders for themselves at the retail locations.Type: GrantFiled: February 5, 2016Date of Patent: November 1, 2022Assignee: LivingSocial, Inc.Inventors: Quinn McLaughlin, Ben Harris Lyon
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Patent number: 11257112Abstract: A system and method for optimizing advertisements for display to users comprising receiving a request for an advertisement wherein the request comprises information about a user to whom the advertisement is to be displayed; determining at least one community of which the user is a member; determining a conditional probability that the user will interact with the advertisement; responsive to the conditional probability exceeding a threshold, determining community data to present with the advertisement and providing for display to the user the advertisement and the community data; responsive to the providing of the advertisement, receiving an indication of activity at a client system related to the advertisement or community data; and storing the indication in a storage medium.Type: GrantFiled: October 15, 2009Date of Patent: February 22, 2022Assignee: LivingSocial, Inc.Inventors: Farhad Massoudi, David Robert Gentzel
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Patent number: 11157932Abstract: An online incentive network is optimized. Online incentive network data is accessed including data regarding sharing between users of the network from at least one database. Inputted parameters and network data are applied to one or more models for incentivized deal sharing to determine profitability of an incentivized sharing deal to offer to plurality of users via an online network for one or more products or services provided by a merchant. The incentivized sharing deal comprises a deal in which a user purchases a particular deal, and then when the user shares the particular deal with a threshold number of other users who also purchase the deal, the user receives an incentive. The parameters include a price of the deal; a proportion of the deal kept by the merchant or the online incentive network, and the number of incentivized users. An interface offers the incentivized sharing deal to users.Type: GrantFiled: October 22, 2019Date of Patent: October 26, 2021Assignee: LivingSocial, Inc.Inventors: Elena Zheleva, Joseph John Pfeiffer, III
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Patent number: 11100553Abstract: A server receives a request for a deal from a client device of a merchant, the request for a deal including a merchant identifier. The server then accesses merchant information based on the merchant identifier, the merchant information including a merchant category and a merchant location. Additionally, the server obtains a set of candidate deals based on the merchant category and merchant location. The server then obtains historical information for each candidate deal, the historical information corresponding to one or more conversion rates of the candidate deal when the candidate deal was previously offered by one or more merchants. Next, the server determines a predicted conversion rate for each candidate deal, based on the historical information for the respective candidate deal and selects a deal based on the predicted conversion rates for the set of candidate deals.Type: GrantFiled: March 14, 2019Date of Patent: August 24, 2021Assignee: LivingSocial, Inc.Inventor: Mehrdad Bidgoli
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Patent number: 10949485Abstract: Advertisements are generated and selected for display to users, wherein the advertisements include representations of subject individuals. These subject individuals can be friends with whom the user interacts on the Internet and/or any other contributors who may or may not have expertise with regard to the subject matter of the advertisement. A subject individual can be portrayed in an advertisement by including any type of representation of the individual. Ranks for the subject individuals are determined based on the subject individuals' interactions with advertisements and/or on other factors. An advertisement is selected and presented to a user based on a score derived from friends' and/or contributors' interactions with the advertisement. According to various embodiments of the invention, a method is provided for choosing which advertisement(s) to show to a user and which subject individuals to portray in the advertisements.Type: GrantFiled: February 26, 2009Date of Patent: March 16, 2021Assignee: LivingSocial, Inc.Inventors: Sourabh Niyogi, David Robert Gentzel
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Patent number: 10867359Abstract: Systems and methods to integrate point of sale processing, online order processing, coupon management, WiFi access management, and supply chain and store management, etc. In one aspect, a central server provides point of sale, coupon management and other functions via browser based interfaces. The system provides a coupon to a customer to offer discounts to friends of the customer and/or rewards to the customer if the friends of the customer use the coupon. The system validates the coupon when the coupon is used at POS terminals of the system and tracks the usage of the coupons to select customers for targeting future coupons. In another aspect, the central server is configured to provide the customer with WiFi access at the retail location where the order of the customer is fulfilled and further configured to automatically log the customer into an account of the customer hosted on a third party server.Type: GrantFiled: September 12, 2018Date of Patent: December 15, 2020Assignee: LivingSocial, Inc.Inventors: Quinn McLaughlin, Ben Harris Lyon
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Publication number: 20200294121Abstract: A merchant system structures communications among merchants, partners, and customers. The merchant system may include a messaging component that organizes messages so that a manager can quickly navigate and understand the content of incoming messages. The messaging system also may categorize a user's profile so that a user may share profile information established at a first merchant with a second merchant.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 27, 2020Publication date: September 17, 2020Applicant: LivingSocial, Inc.Inventors: Eric LAIRD, Cara MAGGIONI, Kerry LENAHAN, Timothy MCCANN
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Patent number: 10762535Abstract: Various implementations relate to a system that provides a collection of deals to a mobile application on a client device. The mobile application then filters the deals based on relevance using a user profile within the client device, and displays the deals to a user. The display of the deals may be governed by the relevance of the respective deals as determined by matching of the deals with the user profile within the client device.Type: GrantFiled: October 27, 2015Date of Patent: September 1, 2020Assignee: LivingSocial, Inc.Inventors: Richard Kilmer, Douglas March
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Patent number: 10657569Abstract: A merchant application is installed on a mobile device and can be used by a merchant to create a real-time deal for one or more products or services provided by the merchant. The deal is provided by the merchant application to a deal server for offering the deal to consumers based at least in part on geographic proximity of the consumers to the location at which the deal can be used. The merchant application can receive real-time information regarding purchased deals from the deal server in response to transactions made between the deal server and consumers to purchase the deal. The merchant application can display a listing of purchased deals, which can be updated in response to receiving input indicating that a particular purchased deal has been redeemed.Type: GrantFiled: February 27, 2012Date of Patent: May 19, 2020Assignee: LivingSocial, Inc.Inventors: Aaron Batalion, Brett H. Battjer
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Patent number: 10628880Abstract: A merchant system structures communications among merchants, partners, and customers. The merchant system may include a messaging component that organizes messages so that a manager can quickly navigate and understand the content of incoming messages. The messaging system also may categorize a user's profile so that a user may share profile information established at a first merchant with a second merchant.Type: GrantFiled: May 28, 2013Date of Patent: April 21, 2020Assignee: LivingSocial, Inc.Inventors: Eric Laird, Cara Maggioni, Kerry Lenahan, Timothy McCann
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Patent number: 10607218Abstract: A transaction intermediary configured to receive a transaction request, enable the input of transaction information, receive a transaction package including the inputted transaction information, route the transaction package to a processing location, receive an indication that the transaction package has been processed, and generate an electronic voucher in response to the indication.Type: GrantFiled: May 9, 2012Date of Patent: March 31, 2020Assignee: LIVINGSOCIAL, INC.Inventor: Aaron Batalion
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Patent number: 10482487Abstract: An online incentive network is optimized. Online incentive network data is accessed including data regarding sharing between users of the network from at least one database. Inputted parameters and network data are applied to one or more models for incentivized deal sharing to determine profitability of an incentivized sharing deal to offer to plurality of users via an online network for one or more products or services provided by a merchant. The incentivized sharing deal comprises a deal in which a user purchases a particular deal, and then when the user shares the particular deal with a threshold number of other users who also purchase the deal, the user receives an incentive. The parameters include a price of the deal; a proportion of the deal kept by the merchant or the online incentive network, and the number of incentivized users. An interface offers the incentivized sharing deal to users.Type: GrantFiled: August 13, 2013Date of Patent: November 19, 2019Assignee: LIVINGSOCIAL, INC.Inventors: Elena Zheleva, Joseph John Pfeiffer, III
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Patent number: 10275786Abstract: A server receives a request for a deal from a client device of a merchant, the request for a deal including a merchant identifier. The server then accesses merchant information based on the merchant identifier, the merchant information including a merchant category and a merchant location. Additionally, the server obtains a set of candidate deals based on the merchant category and merchant location. The server then obtains historical information for each candidate deal, the historical information corresponding to one or more conversion rates of the candidate deal when the candidate deal was previously offered by one or more merchants. Next, the server determines a predicted conversion rate for each candidate deal, based on the historical information for the respective candidate deal and selects a deal based on the predicted conversion rates for the set of candidate deals.Type: GrantFiled: June 25, 2013Date of Patent: April 30, 2019Assignee: LIVINGSOCIAL, INC.Inventor: Mehrdad Bidgoli
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Patent number: 10102591Abstract: Systems and methods to integrate point of sale processing, online order processing, coupon management, WiFi access management, and supply chain and store management, etc. In one aspect, a central server provides point of sale, coupon management and other functions via browser based interfaces. The system provides a coupon to a customer to offer discounts to friends of the customer and/or rewards to the customer if the friends of the customer use the coupon. The system validates the coupon when the coupon is used at POS terminals of the system and tracks the usage of the coupons to select customers for targeting future coupons. In another aspect, the central server is configured to provide the customer with WiFi access at the retail location where the order of the customer is fulfilled and further configured to automatically log the customer into an account of the customer hosted on a third party server.Type: GrantFiled: January 20, 2012Date of Patent: October 16, 2018Assignee: LIVINGSOCIAL, INC.Inventors: Quinn McLaughlin, Ben Harris Lyon