Patents Assigned to Groupon, Inc.
  • Patent number: 11442945
    Abstract: Techniques for integrating freshness and relevance within a programmatic relevance service are discussed herein. Some embodiments may include a relevance service system, including one or more batch processors and one or more online processors. The one or more batch processors may be configured to track message recipient behavior from electronic clickstream data, and generate models of functions that predict access probability for individual users. The one or more online processors may use the access probability calculated in batch to facilitate on demand deal ranking adjustments that account for freshness as informed by the predicted access probability for communications sent to the user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 29, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 13, 2022
    Assignee: Groupon, Inc.
    Inventors: Ming-Chi Tsai, Amber Roy Chowdhury, Tong Zhao
  • Patent number: 11429997
    Abstract: The present disclosure is directed toward a system that allows a promotion and marketing system to provide promotions to users of the promotion and marketing system for establishments that are currently not affiliated with the promotion and marketing system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 11, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 30, 2022
    Assignee: GROUPON, INC.
    Inventors: Anthony Joseph, Jonathan Li On Wing, Zhi Guo
  • Patent number: 11429539
    Abstract: Provided herein are systems, methods and computer readable media for providing an out of band cache mechanism for ensuring availability of data. An example system may include a client device configured to, in response to determining requested data is not available in a cache, access the requested data from a data source, transmit, to a cache mechanism, an indication that the requested data is unavailable in the cache, the indication configured to be placed in a queue as an element pointing to the requested data, a cache mechanism configured to receive an indication of requested data, determine whether an element, the element indicative of the requested data, exists in a queue, and in an instance in which the element is not present in the queue, placing the element in the queue, the queue being a list of elements, each indicative of requested data needing to be placed in the cache.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 6, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 30, 2022
    Assignee: Groupon, Inc.
    Inventors: Steven Black, Stuart Siegrist, Gilligan Markham
  • Patent number: 11432102
    Abstract: Techniques for providing proximity based messages are discussed herein. Some embodiments may include one or more servers configured to receive proximity message requests from a consumer device. The requests may include consumer device locations, which may be used by the one or more servers to generate a geofence set. Furthermore, the consumer device location may be used as a basis for selecting notification data relevant to the location. Both the geofence set and the notification data may be sent to the consumer device in a single proximity message response for local notification creation if the notification data can be collected within a maximum response time. The notification data may be provided via a push notification server asynchronously if the notification data cannot be collected within the maximum response time.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 27, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 30, 2022
    Assignee: GROUPON, INC.
    Inventors: Scott Ellis, Devdatta Gangal, Jayesh Joy, Hamish Barney
  • Patent number: 11429944
    Abstract: Systems, apparatus, methods, and non-transitory media for providing point-of-sale functionality are discussed herein. Some embodiments may include a system including a merchant device and a consumer facing device. The merchant device may include a merchant display device configured to present interactive displays of a merchant facing interface configured to be used by merchants. The consumer facing device may be configured to present interactive displays of a consumer facing interface configured to be used by consumers. The point-of-sale system may be configured to facilitate financial transactions and other forms of consumer service. For example, merchant inputs provided via the merchant facing interface (e.g., entered menu items) may be shown on the consumer facing interface. In another example, consumer inputs provided via the consumer facing interface be sent to the merchant device and/or otherwise used by the merchant device to facilitate a financial transaction, among other things.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 18, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 30, 2022
    Assignee: GROUPON, INC.
    Inventors: David Scott Parker, Tim Loong Mun, Raúl Eduardo Acuña Carrasco, Kavin Arasu, Peter Hong
  • Patent number: 11430013
    Abstract: In general, embodiments of the present invention provide systems, methods and computer readable media for a configurable test environment within which a relevance service can be invoked to execute one or a combination of test scenarios, each test scenario respectively being configured to exercise one or a combination of features of the relevance service. In embodiments, a test scenario may be configured to use test data that can be simulated and/or be derived from one or a combination of user models and promotion models, and/or be based on aggregated data that has been collected from previous production runs of the relevance service. In embodiments, each test scenario is described as a set of test configuration data. In some embodiments, the test configuration data are represented in a data interchange format that is both human and machine-readable, e.g., JavaScript Object Notation (JSON).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 8, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 30, 2022
    Assignee: GROUPON, INC.
    Inventors: Kannan Nitin Sharma, Srinivasa Vedanarayanan, Vidhyaa Muralidharan
  • Patent number: 11423421
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention provide methods, systems, apparatuses, and computer program products for predicting system resource volumes for future network time intervals based upon predicted likelihoods of termination transactions for the future network time interval.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 23, 2022
    Assignee: GROUPON, INC.
    Inventors: Addhyan Pandey, Kai-Chen Cheng
  • Patent number: 11425074
    Abstract: In general, embodiments of the present invention provide systems, methods and computer readable media for a defining and executing state machines that act based on messages received on a message queue.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 30, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 23, 2022
    Assignee: Groupon, Inc.
    Inventor: In Jae Lee
  • Patent number: 11416880
    Abstract: Provided herein are systems, methods and computer readable media for managing a sales pipeline, and in some embodiments, generating demand based on real time demand and predicted demand.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 5, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 16, 2022
    Assignee: GROUPON, INC.
    Inventors: Shafiq Shariff, Derek Nordquist
  • Patent number: 11418578
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention provide methods, systems, apparatuses, and computer program products for predicting network asset requests for a future network time interval.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 27, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 16, 2022
    Assignee: GROUPON, INC.
    Inventor: Addhyan Pandey
  • Patent number: 11416922
    Abstract: Various methods are provided for programmatically providing a platform for responding dynamically providing a response to a property level availability call through API request based on run-time information. One example method may comprise receiving the property level availability call, the property level availability call configured to elicit a response identifying an availability of one or more of the plurality of specified properties for a specified time frame, determining, based on an associated bid, whether an affirmative response to the property level availability call is profitable, and in an instance in which the affirmative response is profitable, causing transmission of the affirmative response.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 27, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 16, 2022
    Assignee: GROUPON, INC.
    Inventors: Kevin Saito, Barry O'Sullivan, Taylor Dykes, Giovanni Gargiulo
  • Patent number: 11409431
    Abstract: Embodiments provide a computer-executed method, a computer system and computer-program product for facilitating a transaction. The method includes transmitting computer-executable instructions to cause a representation of an item to be displayed on a consumer interface rendered on a visual display of a computing device. The method also includes receiving, from the computing device, an indication of a compound consumer input associated with a consumer and performed using the consumer interface. The method further includes, based on a determination that the compound consumer input corresponds to a purchase command, retrieving information previously stored for the consumer, generating an order to purchase the item for the consumer, and transmitting an order confirmation configured to be displayed by the computing device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 19, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 9, 2022
    Assignee: Groupon, Inc.
    Inventors: Sri Viswanath, Eric Hyche, Mihir Shah, Peter Bergstrom, Michael Burton, Dor Levi, Fabio Sisinni, Don Albert Chennavasin, Marius G. Ciocirlan, Ben Kim, Riaz Rahim
  • Patent number: 11403133
    Abstract: An apparatus, method, and computer program product are provided to translate request data objects into ordered sequence of tasks to be performed by 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 related parameters are interleaved into an ordered sequence of tasks, and a renderable object associated therewith is provided to a user interface of a mobile system associated with a network response asset. Location information such as triangulated position information associated with one or more mobile devices, along with other system characteristics may be used to ascertain system status and otherwise effectuate request translation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 2, 2022
    Assignee: GROUPON, INC.
    Inventors: Edward Schmalzle, Phillip Sasser, Nicholas Pellegrini, Ross Moulton
  • Patent number: 11403660
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention provide methods, systems, apparatuses, and computer program products for classifying merchants. In one embodiment a method is provided comprising providing, a first promotion specifying a redemption and a charge monetary values, the redemption monetary value being specified by redemption parameters of the first promotion and a value indicative of a total amount of funds purchased in response to accepting an instance of the first promotion, wherein the funds purchased can be redeemed for offerings of one or more merchants specified by the promotion, the charge monetary value being a monetary value charged for accepting the first promotion, and providing a first classification classifying the first promotion as a promotion having a redemption monetary value that may be used to purchase offerings of the one or more merchants over the course of multiple transactions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 22, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 2, 2022
    Assignee: GROUPON, INC.
    Inventors: Dylan C. Reynolds, Alan Deitch
  • Patent number: 11403656
    Abstract: A method, apparatus and computer program product are provided for generation of analytic data. An example embodiment includes a method for identifying trending items based on electronically generated velocity metrics derived from transaction data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 28, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 2, 2022
    Assignee: GROUPON, INC.
    Inventors: Nipun Agarwal, Rajesh Parekh
  • Patent number: 11403331
    Abstract: In general, embodiments of the present invention provide systems, methods and computer readable media for generating an optimal classifying query set for categorizing and/or labeling textual data based on a query subsumption calculus to determine, given two queries, whether one of the queries subsumes another. In one aspect, a method includes generating a group of determining queries based on analyzing text within a document; receiving a group of classifying queries; and, for each determining query within the group of determining queries, determining whether at least one of the classifying queries is subsumed by the determining query; and updating the group of classifying queries in an instance in which the classifying query is subsumed by the determining query.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 24, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 2, 2022
    Assignee: Groupon, Inc.
    Inventor: Nick Pendar
  • Patent number: 11397964
    Abstract: Provided herein are method, apparatus, and computer program products for automatically outputting a wearer interface or a redemption interface. The wearer interface and the redemption interface may contain information related to a wearer of a wearable device and a provider respectively. The wearable device may reference a merchant redemption parameters database to facilitate the output of the redemption interface, and the wearable device my reference a wearer parameters database to facilitate the output of the wearer interface. Both the wearer interface and the redemption interface may be displayed on the wearable device by an interactive display.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 9, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 26, 2022
    Assignee: GROUPON, INC.
    Inventors: Peter Bengt Karl Bergstrom, Adam John Muhlbauer, Don Albert Chennavasin, Devdatta Gangal, Jingting Wang
  • Patent number: 11392986
    Abstract: Systems, apparatus, and methods for effectively allowing consumers to request promotions from a merchant are discussed herein. Some embodiments may provide for a networked device, apparatus, or server configured to: in response to determining that a merchant device is not associated with at least one available promotion, determine, via a processor, a promotion request threshold value indicating a required number of promotion requests for generating a promotion associated with the merchant device; receive a plurality of promotion requests from a plurality of consumer devices via the network; calculate, via the processor, a promotion request count associated with the plurality of promotion requests; and in response to determining that the promotion request count satisfies the promotion request threshold value, generate a promotion offer request indicating a request to generate the promotion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 24, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 19, 2022
    Assignee: GROUPON, INC.
    Inventors: Eric Lefkofsky, Daniel Roarty, Matthew Joseph Hanson, Zachary Finley, David William Kunst, Feras Karablieh
  • Patent number: 11392631
    Abstract: Embodiments provide a computer-executable method, computer system and non-transitory computer-readable medium for programmatically processing text information to generate attribute descriptors contained therein. The method includes programmatically accessing, via a network device, a textual unit, the textual unit associated with a commercial entity or a commercial object. The method also includes executing a text processing engine to programmatically generate an attribute descriptor from the textual unit. The method further includes storing, on a non-transitory computer-readable storage device, the attribute descriptor in association with identification of the commercial entity or the commercial object.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 24, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 19, 2022
    Assignee: Groupon, Inc.
    Inventors: Gaston L'Huillier, Jonathan Esterhazy, Dor Levi, Amit Koren, Daniel Langdon, Bhupesh Bansal, Feras Karablieh, Hernan Enrique Arroyo Garcia, Srinivasa Raghavan Vedanarayanan, Shawn Ryan Jeffrey, Francisco Jose Larrain
  • Patent number: 11392837
    Abstract: Embodiments provide for automated dynamic data quality assessment. A data quality job including a new data sample is received. If the new data sample is determined to be added to a reservoir of data samples, a quality verification request is sent to an oracle. A new data sample quality estimate is received from the oracle. The new data sample and estimate can be added to the reservoir. A judgment associated with a new data sample is received from a predictive model. Whether to send a new data sample quality verification request to an oracle is determined. If a new data sample quality estimate is received from the oracle, whether to add the new data sample and the judgment to the reservoir is determined.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 19, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 19, 2022
    Assignee: GROUPON, INC.
    Inventors: Mark Thomas Daly, Shawn Ryan Jeffery, Matthew DeLand, Nick Pendar, Andrew James, David Johnston