Patents Assigned to VITRUE, INC.
  • Publication number: 20120109752
    Abstract: Systems and methods for creation, management and delivery of targeted marketing campaigns to a consumer based on a consumer's social check-in activity as identified by a consumer on one or more location based social networks. In one embodiment, a campaign management system receives information relating to a consumer's social check-in activity from various (heterogeneous) location based social networks in a wide variety of formats, and further normalizes such disparate information received into a standardized format. According to an aspect, the system processes the normalized information in conjunction with pre-stored marketing campaigns created by marketers for purposes of identifying consumers who satisfy one or more conditions specific to the pre-stored marketing campaigns. Campaign-related information corresponding to the pre-stored marketing campaigns generally comprise various promotional offers, discounts, coupons, etc.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 6, 2011
    Publication date: May 3, 2012
    Applicant: VITRUE, INC.
    Inventors: Michael J. Strutton, John B. Nolt, Sean Sawyer, John Schult, Jon M. Lee, Kurt B. Uhlir, Jason C. Reynolds
  • Publication number: 20120011432
    Abstract: Systems and methods for the creation and management of electronic associations between social media systems and web pages. Such associations promote greater interactions between web page visitors and users of social media pages. A social graph management system (SGMS) receives information related to a web page, and creates associations between the web page and social media pages. A process of creating such associations involves configuration of social media software for insertion into the web page. Furthermore, creating associations also involves creation of an intermediary page (and related data structures) by the SGMS in order to direct traffic between the web page and social media pages. User activity in the web page is tracked in addition to web traffic arriving at the intermediary page at subsequent times for computation of various analytics.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 1, 2011
    Publication date: January 12, 2012
    Applicant: VITRUE, INC.
    Inventor: Michael J. Strutton
  • Publication number: 20110282943
    Abstract: Systems and methods for evaluating the effectiveness of social media pages. Users of social media systems review and publish various kinds of content on social media pages, including various messages, audio clips, video clips, polls, web links, etc. A social media page evaluation system hosted on a physical server or a cloud receives a social media page that is to be evaluated, and provides results of an evaluation process. The evaluation process involves processing of various criteria and parameters that characterize engagements and interactions between users of social media pages. Results of an evaluation process include qualitative and quantitative attributes in connection with evaluating the effectiveness of published content on social media pages. Such results are useful for purposes of enriching content in social media pages, resulting in greater network traffic due to increased engagements and interaction among users of social media pages.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 11, 2011
    Publication date: November 17, 2011
    Applicant: VITRUE, INC.
    Inventors: James V. Anderson, John B. Nolt, Michael J. Strutton, Wenchang Yan, Sriti Kumar, Robert M. Maury, Paul M. Broft, Maria F. Arscott, Nancy M. Lim, Jason C. Reynolds, Joe Kearney, John Schult, Melinda M. Weathers, Chad Estes, Erica M. Stanley, Geoffrey Hom, Gregory K. Dunn, Horace Williams, II, Matt White, Reginald R. Bradford, Andrei Erdoss, Andrew Robert Dorr, Brian Culler
  • Publication number: 20110213670
    Abstract: Systems and methods for delivering application media content to multiple social media systems (SMSs) for display to SMS members. The method includes the steps of providing initial application media content to respective SMSs. Once a respective SMS member interacts with the initial content, a social relationship management system (SRMS) receives indication from an SMS of such interaction, and retrieves a unique application media file relating to application media content. The unique application media file is then applied to an application media container file that overcomes certain formatting protocols and requirements of the SMS and enables transmission and delivery of the application media content to the SMS. The application media content is then delivered to the SMS member on the SMS through the application media container file.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 31, 2011
    Publication date: September 1, 2011
    Applicant: VITRUE, INC.
    Inventors: Michael J. Strutton, Paulo Delgado, Slain J. Wilde, Chad Estes, Benjamin Turner, John Schult, John Maxwell, Jason C. Reynolds, Bryan S. Pocius, Horace Williams, II, John B. Nolt
  • Publication number: 20110145064
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure generally relate to aspects of an Internet-accessible brand management system (BMS) that allows marketers (e.g., corporations, organizations, etc.) to efficiently organize, create, maintain, and display content associated with many brand categories or brand items within a brand category on a single social media system (SMS) page/account, or alternatively, across many SMS pages or accounts with one or more common content themes. Administrators/developers of individual marketing pages or accounts (global and local) may update their pages through the BMS using standard configurable templates. The system may integrate content from one or more developers to create content for varying pages (for example, by incorporating some global content into local pages according to configurable rules, or vice versa).
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 13, 2010
    Publication date: June 16, 2011
    Applicant: VITRUE, INC.
    Inventors: James V. Anderson, Luis M. Caballero, Michael J. Strutton, Brian Culler, Micah Z. Wedemeyer, Erick J. Schmitt, Jon M. Lee
  • Publication number: 20110112899
    Abstract: System and method for managing marketing programs on multiple social media systems. The method includes the steps of creating a message for one or more social media systems associated with a marketing program. The message is created via a social relationship management (SRM) system that interfaces with the social media systems. The message may be a simple text message or a multimedia message. Next, delivery of the developed message to the social media systems programs is scheduled. The SRM further customizes the message format according to the rules and requirements of the corresponding social networking systems, before publishing the customized message to the social media systems at the scheduled time. The published messages are monitored and appropriate insights are drawn from the monitored messages and their responses by social media system members.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 19, 2010
    Publication date: May 12, 2011
    Applicant: VITRUE, INC.
    Inventors: Michael J. Strutton, Slain J. Wilde, John C. Maxwell, James V. Anderson, Bryan S. Pocius, Adam P. Benjamin
  • Publication number: 20100076966
    Abstract: In one aspect, the present disclosure relates to a method, in a computer network, for generating social index scores associated with key terms within web-based social network sites. Generally, the method comprises the steps of receiving an input of the key terms from a user, generating search queries from the key terms, providing the generated search queries to the web-based social network sites, capturing search results received from the web-based social network sites in response to the provided search queries, generating, from the captured search results, the social index scores using a processing algorithm, storing the generated social index scores in at least one database, and, providing at least one representation of the generated social index scores to the user in one or more of numerical, visual, and printed form.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 21, 2009
    Publication date: March 25, 2010
    Applicant: VITRUE, INC.
    Inventors: Michael J. STRUTTON, James V. ANDERSON, Jon M. LEE