Patents Assigned to Groupon, Inc.
  • Patent number: 11614984
    Abstract: An apparatus, method, and computer program product are provided to detect error conditions and otherwise monitor the status of request data object and network response assets and related systems to allow for the efficient movement of network resources and other resources in high-volume network environments. In some example implementations, otherwise unrelated request data objects and their related parameters, along with otherwise unrelated network response asset systems are depicted on a single interface such that pairings between request data objects and network response assets, and other status information can be readily viewed. Some example implementations contemplate the use of location data in connection with error detection and remediation. Some example implementations also contemplate the establishment and use of a communication channel between an interface system and a system associated with a request data object and/or a network response asset upon the detection of an error condition.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 23, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 28, 2023
    Assignee: GROUPON, INC.
    Inventors: Kyle Fritz, Paul Barry, Jamie Gaskins
  • Patent number: 11615438
    Abstract: A method, apparatus, and computer program product are disclosed for self-service design, scheduling, and delivery of user-defined reports regarding promotions. The method includes receiving, from a user device, a report type and report delivery information. Based on the report type, relevant data regarding the one or more promotions is collected, using which a report is generated. The method then outputs the generated report based on the report delivery information. Optionally, analytical insights, such as trends within the data, sample size, suitability of control data, and indications of statistical significance, are generated and included in the report. A corresponding apparatus and computer program product are also provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 1, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 28, 2023
    Assignee: GROUPON, INC.
    Inventors: Nipun Agarwal, Sudeep Srivastava, Isaac Kim
  • Patent number: 11615459
    Abstract: Systems and related methods providing for online ordering of menu items from a merchant are discussed herein. Circuitry may be configured to generate an online menu based on menu information stored in a menu database. The menu information may be also configured to facilitate point-of-sale functionality at the merchant, such as by a point-of-sale device. The online menu may be provided to a consumer device. An online order may be received from the consumer device. The circuitry may be configured to process the online order, such as by facilitating a reservation, order preparation, and payment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 3, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 28, 2023
    Assignee: GROUPON, INC.
    Inventors: Nathaniel B. Scholl, Jason Crawford, Joshua Puckett
  • Patent number: 11615439
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure provide methods, systems, apparatuses, and computer program products that provide for an improved and more efficient system for transmitting content to client devices. The embodiments disclose an apparatus that clusters user behavior based on platform session records. The platform session records comprise stored data associated with a plurality of user inputs received by the system for the duration of a platform session. The apparatus and methods transform the platform session records into data comprising a form that is usable for identifying clusters of platform sessions. As a result of the clustering methodologies, the apparatus is configured to deliver content specifically optimized for users of client devices. The present disclosure thus provides for an improved networked system that reduces the amount of data transferred via the network and allows for a more efficient system that has reduced infrastructure requirements and improved performance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 16, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 28, 2023
    Assignee: GROUPON, INC.
    Inventors: Michael Gideon Sussman, Robb Broome, Siddhant Tandon
  • Patent number: 11615440
    Abstract: Provided herein are methods, apparatus, and computer program products for suppressing content from ranked positioning in electronic correspondence based on rules-based scoring.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 10, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 28, 2023
    Assignee: Groupon, Inc.
    Inventors: Mark Daly, Xiaolei Li
  • Patent number: 11615123
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure provide methods, systems, and apparatuses for rapid geographic search in an actor-based geographic search network.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 10, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 28, 2023
    Assignee: GROUPON, INC.
    Inventors: Matias Sebastian Gonzalez, Thiago Ferreira Costa, Antonio Bastardo, Alvaro Viloria
  • Patent number: 11609880
    Abstract: Systems and methods are provided to ingest and integrate data objects for use in one or more system operations including providing a renderable data object to a user and updating a data item database.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 28, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 21, 2023
    Assignee: Groupon, Inc.
    Inventors: Ramya Amancharla, Anthony Caliendo, Brian David Fields, James J. Sullivan, Kyle Oppenheim, Rajat Shroff
  • Patent number: 11604836
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure provide methods, systems, apparatuses, and computer program products for predictive dynamic bidding rules generation for digital content objects.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 26, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 14, 2023
    Assignee: Groupon, Inc.
    Inventors: Clovis Aurius Chapman, Owen Buehler, Mazeiar Salehie
  • Patent number: 11599596
    Abstract: Computing systems, computing apparatuses, computing methods, and computer program products are disclosed for optimizing a webpage. An example computing method includes determining a first average number of clicks (ANC) value for a first set of webpage nodes based on first webpage decision tree data and historical usage data. The example computing method further includes generating semantic grouping data for the first set of webpage nodes based on the first webpage decision tree data and webpage node description data. The example computing method further includes determining a second ANC value based on the first set of webpage nodes. The example computing method further includes generating, based on the second ANC value and the semantic grouping data, second webpage decision tree data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 10, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 7, 2023
    Assignee: GROUPON, INC.
    Inventors: Adam Karwan, Anna Bolek, Filip Krawiec, Mirosław Forystek
  • Patent number: 11599567
    Abstract: Provided herein are systems, methods and computer readable media for classification and tagging of textual data. An example method may include accessing a corpus comprising a plurality of documents, each document having one or more labels indicative of services offered by a merchant, generating a query based on extracted features and the documents, generating a precision score for at least a portion of the generated query and selecting a subset of the generated queries based on an assigned precision score satisfying a precision score threshold, the selected subset of the generated queries configured to provide an indication of one or more labels to be applied to machine readable text. A second example method, utilized for tagging machine readable text with unknown labels, may include assigning a label to textual portions of the machine readable text based on results of the application of the queries.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 17, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 7, 2023
    Assignee: Groupon, Inc.
    Inventor: Nick Pendar
  • Patent number: 11599904
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention provide methods, systems, apparatuses, and computer program products for predicting consumer behavior. In one embodiment a method is provided comprising determining a classification for a first consumer, wherein the classification is based on a measure of frequency of purchases by the first consumer; identifying one or more first attributes for the first consumer based on the determined classification, the one or more attributes being attributes selected for predicting the respective one or more metric associated with the first consumer; and determining, based on values for the one or more first attributes, a first prediction value that indicates a programmatically expected number of purchases by the first consumer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 26, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 7, 2023
    Assignee: GROUPON, INC.
    Inventors: Riva Ashley Vanderveld, Angela Han, Rajesh Girish Parekh
  • Patent number: 11593832
    Abstract: Prospective deals for a deal vendor's deal inventory may be scored according to one or more population-specific expected-yield scores, such as expected revenue yield, expected new customers yield, and the like. A prospective deal is categorized and characterized according to a number of yield-related characteristics. Some or all of the prospective deal's characteristics are mapped to yield components derived from completed deals that have been offered to a particular population. An expected-yield score for a prospective deal with regard to that population is obtained by combining the mapped yield components.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 10, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 28, 2023
    Assignee: GROUPON, INC.
    Inventors: Martin Tobias, Dane Knecht, Samy Aboel-Nil
  • Patent number: 11593694
    Abstract: Method, apparatus and computer program product for performing a cross-model predictive inference to generate a cross-model predictive output for a plurality of predictive inputs using a plurality of predictive models. For example, the apparatus includes at least one processor and at least one non-transitory memory including program code. The at least one non-transitory memory and the program code are configured to, with the at least one processor, obtain a model selection probability distribution which defines, for each predictive model, a respective selection probability score; obtain, for each predictive model, respective cross-model normalization data; for each predictive input, determine a cross-model predictive score; and determine, based on each determined cross-model predictive score, the cross-model predictive output.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 7, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 28, 2023
    Assignee: Groupon, Inc.
    Inventors: Ana Ananthakumar, Afsin Bulbul, Andrew Lisy, Situo Liu, Hechao Sun
  • Patent number: 11593849
    Abstract: Systems and related methods facilitating interactions between a merchant device, a central system and a consumer device are discussed herein. Wallet identifying data may be used to secure messages between the consumer device and the merchant device over a wireless link. For example, the merchant device may include circuitry configured to wirelessly receive the wallet identifying data from a consumer device and to transmit the wallet identifying data to the central system. In response, consumer identifying data associated with the wallet identifying data may be received by the merchant device from the central system. In some embodiments, employee identifying data that identifies an employee may be associated with the consumer identifying data to facilitate consumer assistance and employee payment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 23, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 28, 2023
    Assignee: Groupon, Inc.
    Inventors: Tuomas Artman, Jyri Engestrom, Ulf Schwekendiek
  • Patent number: 11593836
    Abstract: Electronic correspondence that includes one or more promotions may be generated for presenting to a consumer. In order to determine whether to present the electronic correspondence to the consumer, the promotions included in the electronic correspondences may be analyzed in terms of a probability the consumer will accept the promotions, a relevance level between the promotions and attributes of the consumer, a relevance level between the promotions and the consumer, a relevance level between the promotions and a set of goals or rules, among other similar terms. After the analysis, a determination may be made whether to send the electronic correspondence to the consumer. Similarly, the analysis may compare multiple electronic correspondences, and determine, based on the comparison, which of the multiple electronic correspondences to send to the consumer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 13, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 28, 2023
    Assignee: Groupon, Inc.
    Inventors: Amit Aggarwal, David Thacker
  • Patent number: 11593844
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure provide methods, systems, apparatuses, and computer program products for adaptively generating an initial electronic bid value for a new digital content object.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 28, 2023
    Assignee: GROUPON, INC.
    Inventors: Mazeiar Salehie, Clovis Aurius Chapman
  • Patent number: 11593841
    Abstract: Techniques for providing webpages based on tracking consumer device interactions are discussed herein. Some embodiments may include one or more servers configured to: receive a request for access to a promotion webpage from a consumer device, wherein the request includes a consumer device cookie and the promotion webpage includes an indication of a promotion; in response to receiving the request for access to the promotion webpage, generate the promotion webpage including widgets; generate clickstream data based on tracking widget views of the widgets within the promotion webpage; associate the clickstream data with the consumer device cookie; and generate widget analytic data based on the clickstream data. The widget analytic data may then be used to populate webpages with widgets to optimize various criteria, such as widget views or promotion purchases.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 28, 2023
    Assignee: GROUPON, INC.
    Inventors: Angela Han, Zahra Ferdowsi
  • Patent number: 11593838
    Abstract: Methods, apparatuses, and computer program products are provided herein. A method for providing a shared map interface includes causing display of a shared map interface on a first mobile device and on a second mobile device; receiving a first shape drawing input on the shared map interface displayed on the first mobile device; generating a first circumscribed region on the shared map interface of the first mobile device and the second mobile device; receiving a second shape drawing input on the shared map interface displayed on the second mobile device; generating a second circumscribed region on the shared map interface of the first mobile device and the second mobile device; and determining a search region based on combining the first circumscribed region and the second circumscribed region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 9, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 28, 2023
    Assignee: GROUPON, INC.
    Inventor: Rebeca Minguela Garcia
  • Patent number: 11587123
    Abstract: In general, embodiments of the present invention provide systems, methods and computer readable media for ranking promotions selected for recommendation to consumers based on predictions of promotion performance and consumer behavior. In embodiments, a set of promotions to be recommended to a consumer can be sorted and/or ranked according to respective relevance scores representing a probability that the consumer's behavior in response to the promotion will match a ranking target. In embodiments, calculating scores is based on a relevance model (a predictive function) derived from one or more contextual data sources representing attributes of promotions and consumer behavior. In embodiments, an absolute relevance score represents an absolute prediction of a ranking target variable. In embodiments, absolute relevance may be used to determine personalized local merchant discovery frontiers; featured result set thresholding for impressions; and/or promotion notification triggers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 17, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 21, 2023
    Assignee: Groupon, Inc.
    Inventor: Lawrence Lee Wai
  • Patent number: 11587104
    Abstract: The transaction processing system and method provide an efficient and effective way to authorize promotion redemption. The transaction processing system may receive an indication of a request for authorization, the indication comprising a merchant identifier, an account number, and a transaction amount. The transaction processing system may determine whether the request for authorization corresponds to a promotion. The system may further transmit a transaction authorization based on whether the request for authorization corresponds to the promotion. The transaction processing system may cause a promotion database to designate the promotion as redeemed. In this fashion, the transaction processing system improves the consumer experience and minimizes the transaction time needed to identify and redeem a promotion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 9, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 21, 2023
    Assignee: Groupon, Inc.
    Inventors: Yishai Lerner, Mihir Shah, Gene Alston, Ben Kim