Patents by Inventor Kirk DIKUN
Kirk DIKUN has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).
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Publication number: 20240161146Abstract: A method to select in-store or e-commerce channels for optimized delivery of creative media to consumers includes selecting, based on a prior purchasing behavior for a consumer, a targeted offer, wherein the targeted offer includes at least one of a coupon, a discount, or an advertisement for a retail product. The method also includes selecting a channel for the consumer to redeem the targeted offer, wherein the channel for the consumer to redeem the targeted offer includes one of an in-store redemption of the targeted offer or an online redemption in a shopping basket, providing the targeted offer for display in a client device used by the consumer, and indicating, in the display, the channel for the consumer to redeem the targeted offer. A non-transitory, computer-readable medium storing instructions and a system to perform the above method are also provided.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 25, 2022Publication date: May 16, 2024Inventors: Zubin Singh, Ryan Monahan, Kirk Dikun, Julie Valdez, Todd Schramek, Ronald P. Menich, Tony Mou
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Publication number: 20240135405Abstract: A method for redeeming multiple digital offers with a digital code is provided. The method includes retrieving one or more consumer identification values, forming an offer for the consumer, the offer including a digital incentive associated with a product or service of interest for the consumer, and creating, in a persistent record, an offer monitor to update the offer for the consumer and include the offer, the offers associated with multiple products and services of interest for the consumer. The persistent record includes multiple offers for the consumer and is stored at a network address associated with the consumer. The method also includes associating a digital code with the persistent record, and integrating the persistent record with a wallet application installed in the user device. A system and a non-transitory, computer-readable medium storing instructions to cause the system to perform the above method are also provided.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 25, 2022Publication date: April 25, 2024Inventors: Zubin Singh, Tony Mou, Julie Valdez, Kirk Dikun, Todd Schramek, Ryan Monahan, Kevin Hunter
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Publication number: 20240127293Abstract: A method to form an interactive digital payload for consumers is provided. The method includes selecting, based on a prior purchasing behavior for a consumer, a digital payload including a sponsored advertisement and at least one of a targeted advertisement, a coupon or a discount, for a branded product, selecting a slot for the sponsored advertisement within the digital payload, providing the targeted advertisement, the coupon or the discount for the branded product in a second slot within the digital payload, and providing the digital payload to a publishing server for insertion in a media content that is delivered to a client device with the consumer. A system including a memory storing instructions and a processor to execute the instructions and cause the system to perform the above method are also provided.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 24, 2023Publication date: April 18, 2024Inventors: Zubin Singh, Kirk Dikun, Ryan Monahan, Hannah Lawrence, Ronald P. Menich, Jeremy Dail, James Zinkovitch, Angelo Raphael Khoury, Kerul Bharatbhai Suthar, Suhas Nadiga
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Patent number: 11900417Abstract: A method is provided that includes receiving, in a server, a request from a service provider, the request including a consumer identification code associated with a consumer, and obtaining a personalized list of universal product codes based on the consumer identification code and a purchase history log in a database. The method also includes providing the personalized list of universal product codes to the service provider, and receiving a tracking pixel indicative that the consumer has interacted with a consumer payload, wherein the consumer payload is associated with at least one product from the personalized list of universal product codes. A system and a non-transitory, computer-readable medium storing instructions which cause the system to perform the above method are also disclosed.Type: GrantFiled: April 11, 2022Date of Patent: February 13, 2024Assignee: Catalina Marketing CorporationInventors: Zubin Singh, Todd Schramek, Ryan Monahan, Ron Menich, Kirk Dikun, Eugene Kamarchik
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Patent number: 11636534Abstract: A method including receiving a digital promotion payload from a brand manufacturer for at least one branded consumer packaged good, the digital promotion payload including a digital promotion value associated with the branded consumer packaged good, is provided. The method includes receiving a bid request to the digital promotion engine, providing a bid response to the bid request, the bid response including the digital promotion payload, and receiving, from the supply side platform, a confirmation that the bid response has been selected from one or more bids from different digital advertising entities. The method includes providing a command to the supply side platform to deliver the digital promotion payload to a mobile device accessing a resource from the mobile display publisher, and loading the digital promotion value to a frequent shopper identification in response to a consumer interaction with the digital promotion payload detected from the mobile device.Type: GrantFiled: November 8, 2021Date of Patent: April 25, 2023Assignee: Catalina Marketing CorporationInventors: Zubin Singh, Benjamin S. Sprecher, Ankur Agarwal, Mykola Markov, Kirk Dikun, Tony Mou
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Patent number: 11587158Abstract: A method including receiving a digital promotion payload from a brand manufacturer for at least one branded consumer packaged good, the digital promotion payload including a digital promotion value associated with the branded consumer packaged good, is provided. The method includes receiving a bid request to the digital promotion engine, providing a bid response to the bid request, the bid response including the digital promotion payload, and receiving, from the supply side platform, a confirmation that the bid response has been selected from one or more bids from different digital advertising entities. The method includes providing a command to the supply side platform to deliver the digital promotion payload to a mobile device accessing a resource from the mobile display publisher, and loading the digital promotion value to a frequent shopper identification in response to a consumer interaction with the digital promotion payload detected from the mobile device.Type: GrantFiled: November 8, 2021Date of Patent: February 21, 2023Assignee: CATALINA MARKETING CORPORATIONInventors: Zubin Singh, Benjamin S. Sprecher, Ankur Agarwal, Mykola Markov, Kirk Dikun, Tony Mou
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Publication number: 20230005007Abstract: A method for preventing fraud in incentive transactions is provided that includes receiving metadata from a brand manufacturer for an incentive associated with a selected product, the metadata including a product identifier and a redemption rule. The method includes requesting a host to create a record in a distributed ledger for the incentive using the metadata, providing the incentive to a consumer via a mobile device, assigning a public address to the incentive, receiving from the host a first private key associated with the public address in the record, providing the first private key to the consumer, and receiving a second private key indicative of a redemption of the incentive at a retailer. The method includes validating redemption of the incentive and recording the redemption of the incentive at a retailer in the distributed ledger record when the redemption of the incentive is validated. A system to perform the above method is also provided.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 30, 2020Publication date: January 5, 2023Inventors: Tiffany SOUTHWELL, Zubin SINGH, Ryan MONAHAN, Kirk DIKUN, Tony MOU, Todd SCHRAMEK
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Publication number: 20220292544Abstract: A method is provided that includes receiving, in a server, a request from a service provider, the request including a consumer identification code associated with a consumer, and obtaining a personalized list of universal product codes based on the consumer identification code and a purchase history log in a database. The method also includes providing the personalized list of universal product codes to the service provider, and receiving a tracking pixel indicative that the consumer has interacted with a consumer payload, wherein the consumer payload is associated with at least one product from the personalized list of universal product codes. A system and a non-transitory, computer-readable medium storing instructions which cause the system to perform the above method are also disclosed.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 11, 2022Publication date: September 15, 2022Inventors: Zubin Singh, Todd Schramek, Ryan Monahan, Ron Menich, Kirk Dikun, Eugene Kamarchik
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Patent number: 11301899Abstract: A method is provided that includes receiving, in a server, a request from a service provider, the request including a consumer identification code associated with a consumer, and obtaining a personalized list of universal product codes based on the consumer identification code and a purchase history log in a database. The method also includes providing the personalized list of universal product codes to the service provider, and receiving a tracking pixel indicative that the consumer has interacted with a consumer payload, wherein the consumer payload is associated with at least one product from the personalized list of universal product codes. A system and a non-transitory, computer-readable medium storing instructions which cause the system to perform the above method are also disclosed.Type: GrantFiled: November 13, 2020Date of Patent: April 12, 2022Assignee: Catalina Marketing CorporationInventors: Zubin Singh, Todd Schramek, Ryan Monahan, Ron Menich, Kirk Dikun, Eugene Kamarchik
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Publication number: 20220092629Abstract: A method is provided that includes prompting a consumer to input an authentication credential in a network application to access an account in a server, the network application operating in a client device. The method also includes validating the authentication credential in a database and providing, for display by the network application in the client device, a personalized consumer item, the personalized consumer item associated with the account in the server. The method also includes receiving, from the network application in the client device, a print request from the consumer for a selected portion of the personalized consumer item and transmitting a print command to a printer for printing the selected portion of the personalized consumer item. A system to perform the above method is also provided.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 24, 2020Publication date: March 24, 2022Inventors: Zubin SINGH, Tiffany SOUTHWELL, Kevin HUNTER, Wesley BEAN, Adam WOLFE, Jeremy DAIL, Kirk DIKUN, Ryan MONAHAN, Vedran DELIC, Brian Matthew DUNPHY
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Publication number: 20220067823Abstract: A method including receiving a digital promotion payload from a brand manufacturer for at least one branded consumer packaged good, the digital promotion payload including a digital promotion value associated with the branded consumer packaged good, is provided. The method includes receiving a bid request to the digital promotion engine, providing a bid response to the bid request, the bid response including the digital promotion payload, and receiving, from the supply side platform, a confirmation that the bid response has been selected from one or more bids from different digital advertising entities. The method includes providing a command to the supply side platform to deliver the digital promotion payload to a mobile device accessing a resource from the mobile display publisher, and loading the digital promotion value to a frequent shopper identification in response to a consumer interaction with the digital promotion payload detected from the mobile device.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 8, 2021Publication date: March 3, 2022Inventors: Zubin SINGH, Benjamin S. SPRECHER, Ankur AGARWAL, Mykola MARKOV, Kirk DIKUN, Tony MOU
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Publication number: 20220058728Abstract: A method including receiving a digital promotion payload from a brand manufacturer for at least one branded consumer packaged good, the digital promotion payload including a digital promotion value associated with the branded consumer packaged good, is provided. The method includes receiving a bid request to the digital promotion engine, providing a bid response to the bid request, the bid response including the digital promotion payload, and receiving, from the supply side platform, a confirmation that the bid response has been selected from one or more bids from different digital advertising entities. The method includes providing a command to the supply side platform to deliver the digital promotion payload to a mobile device accessing a resource from the mobile display publisher, and loading the digital promotion value to a frequent shopper identification in response to a consumer interaction with the digital promotion payload detected from the mobile device.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 8, 2021Publication date: February 24, 2022Inventors: Zubin SINGH, Benjamin S. SPRECHER, Ankur AGARWAL, Mykola MARKOV, Kirk DIKUN, Tony MOU
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Patent number: 11170435Abstract: A method including receiving a digital promotion payload from a brand manufacturer for at least one branded consumer packaged good, the digital promotion payload including a digital promotion value associated with the branded consumer packaged good, is provided. The method includes receiving a bid request to the digital promotion engine, providing a bid response to the bid request, the bid response including the digital promotion payload, and receiving, from the supply side platform, a confirmation that the bid response has been selected from one or more bids from different digital advertising entities. The method includes providing a command to the supply side platform to deliver the digital promotion payload to a mobile device accessing a resource from the mobile display publisher, and loading the digital promotion value to a frequent shopper identification in response to a consumer interaction with the digital promotion payload detected from the mobile device.Type: GrantFiled: January 25, 2018Date of Patent: November 9, 2021Assignee: Catalina Marketing CorporationInventors: Zubin Singh, Benjamin S. Sprecher, Ankur Agarwal, Mykola Markov, Kirk Dikun, Tony Mou
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Publication number: 20210150571Abstract: A method is provided that includes receiving, in a server, a request from a service provider, the request including a consumer identification code associated with a consumer, and obtaining a personalized list of universal product codes based on the consumer identification code and a purchase history log in a database. The method also includes providing the personalized list of universal product codes to the service provider, and receiving a tracking pixel indicative that the consumer has interacted with a consumer payload, wherein the consumer payload is associated with at least one product from the personalized list of universal product codes. A system and a non-transitory, computer-readable medium storing instructions which cause the system to perform the above method are also disclosed.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 13, 2020Publication date: May 20, 2021Inventors: Zubin Singh, Todd Schramek, Ryan Monahan, Ron Menich, Kirk Dikun, Eugene Kamarchik
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Publication number: 20180336597Abstract: A method including receiving, in a dynamic creative rendering server, a request from a browser or mobile application, the request directed to an ad-creative display, is provided. The method also includes determining an identifier for the mobile device from a publisher website or application accessible to the mobile device, providing the identifier to an advertisement engine, and correlating the identifier with a frequent shopper identification in a lookup table in the advertisement engine, the frequent shopper identification associated with a retailer. The method also includes receiving a playlist including a structured content, processing the structured content and pushing the playlist including the structured content into the browser or mobile application. A system for performing the above method is also provided.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 25, 2018Publication date: November 22, 2018Inventors: Zubin SINGH, Benjamin S. SPRECHER, Kirk DIKUN, Terrance SNYDER, Mattias VAN LOOVEREN
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Publication number: 20180336625Abstract: A method including receiving a digital promotion payload from a brand manufacturer for at least one branded consumer packaged good, the digital promotion payload including a digital promotion value associated with the branded consumer packaged good, is provided. The method includes receiving a bid request to the digital promotion engine, providing a bid response to the bid request, the bid response including the digital promotion payload, and receiving, from the supply side platform, a confirmation that the bid response has been selected from one or more bids from different digital advertising entities. The method includes providing a command to the supply side platform to deliver the digital promotion payload to a mobile device accessing a resource from the mobile display publisher, and loading the digital promotion value to a frequent shopper identification in response to a consumer interaction with the digital promotion payload detected from the mobile device.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 25, 2018Publication date: November 22, 2018Inventors: Zubin SINGH, Benjamin S. SPRECHER, Ankur AGARWAL, Mykola MARKOV, Kirk DIKUN