Method, apparatus, and computer readable medium for group gifting in a randomized format
Provided herein are systems, methods and computer readable media for proving gift giving within a group. Consumers may register for a gift giving program, create a group and invite other consumers to participate. Group members may be randomly assigned to a group, or assigned to a group based on an invitation or indicated group. Relationships between gift givers and recipients within a group may be determined, such as in a randomized format. Gift givers may purchase a gift, such as a good or a promotion from a promotion and marketing service. The promotion and marketing service may assign the promotion to the recipient so that the recipient may redeem the promotion for a good, service, or experience. Promotions may be automatically purchased on behalf of a gift giver who fails to purchase the promotion by a gift-giving deadline.
1. A system for assigning and transmitting group gift giving indications over a network to two or more consumer devices, the system comprising:
a network interface configured to receive a group giving request indication that is associated with a first user account, the network interface disposed in electronic communication with a consumer device associated with the first user account;
group management circuitry disposed in electronic communication with the network interface, wherein the group management circuitry is configured to:
identify one or more second user accounts for extending an invitation to join a gift giving group associated with a gift giving group identifier and the first user account;
transmit notifications to the one or more second user accounts extending an invitation to join the gift giving group;
prohibit assignment of each second user account to the gift giving group until payment information associated with a respective at least one of the second user accounts is submitted, received, and validated, thereby prohibiting generation of a giver/recipient correlation between each respective second user account and any members of the gift giving group until the payment information associated with the respective second user account is validated;
receive a confirmation, via an e-commerce interface, of validation of the payment information received from at least one of the second user accounts;
in response to receiving the confirmation of the validation of the payment information associated with the at least one second user account, correlate, on a memory device, the at least one second user account to the gift giving group identifier,
determine a giver/recipient correlation between the first user account and the at least one second user account,
associate, on the memory device, a giver identifier with the first user account based on the giver/recipient correlation,
associate a recipient identifier with the at least one second user accounts based on the giver/recipient correlation, wherein the first user account and the giver identifier are anonymous to the second user account, and the second user account and the recipient identifier are anonymous to the first user account, and
store in a database, the payment information associated with the at least one second user account and a gift giving deadline associated with the gift giving group;
relevancy circuitry disposed in electronic communication with the group management circuitry, a promotion assignment database comprised of a plurality of candidate promotion identifiers, and the network interface, wherein the relevancy circuitry is configured to:
access gift recipient consumer data associated with the at least one second user account, the gift recipient consumer data comprising at least one of recipient location, recipient interest, or past recipient purchases;
determine a relevancy score for each candidate promotion identifier of the promotion assignment database, each promotion identifier having an associated promotional value toward a purchase of a good or service, wherein each relevancy score is based on the gift recipient consumer data, a target price or price range associated with the gift giving group identifier in comparison to a cost associated with the respective candidate promotion identifier, and a location of redemption associated with the respective candidate promotion identifier;
determine a recommended promotion identifier based on the relevancy score for each candidate promotion identifier,
output a recommendation indication associated with the recommended promotion identifier, by the network interface, to the consumer device associated with the first user account, wherein the group management circuitry is further configured to, in response to determining, following expiration of the group gift giving deadline, that a gift has not been purchased for a recipient in the gift giving group, generate a purchase trigger indication associated with a respective giver for purchase of a most relevant promotion for the recipient, indicated by the relevancy scores of the respective candidate promotion identifiers; and
promotion assignment circuitry disposed in electronic communication with the promotion assignment database and the network interface, the promotion assignment circuitry configured to:
receive, by the network interface, the purchase trigger indication,
output a purchase indication to the promotion assignment database in response to receiving the purchase trigger indication,
output a purchase confirmation indication, by the network interface, in response to receiving the purchase trigger indication, and
output a redeemable gift indication, by the network interface, to a consumer device associated with the recipient.
2. The system of claim 1 , wherein the one of the one or more second user accounts is selected from the one or more second user accounts at random.
3. The system of claim 1 , wherein the redeemable gift indication is associated with at least a promotion indicative of a promotional value toward a purchase of any of a good or service.
4. The system of claim 1 , wherein the relevancy circuitry determines the relevancy scores based on at least one a recipient location, recipient interests, or past recipient purchases.
5. The system of claim 1 , wherein the group management circuitry is further configured to determine a maximum gift cost, and the relevancy circuitry determines the relevancy scored based on at least the maximum gift cost.
6. An apparatus for assigning and transmitting group gift giving indications over a network to two or more consumer devices, the apparatus comprising:
a network interface configured to receive a group giving request indication that is associated with a first user account, the network interface disposed in electronic communication with a consumer device associated with the first user account;
group management circuitry disposed in electronic communication with the network interface, wherein the group management circuitry is configured to:
identify one or more second user accounts for extending an invitation to join a gift giving group associated with a gift giving group identifier and the first user account;
transmit notifications to the one or more second user accounts extending an invitation to join the gift giving group;
prohibit assignment of each second user account to the gift giving group until payment information associated with a respective at least one of the second user accounts is submitted, received, and validated, thereby prohibiting generation of a giver/recipient correlation between each respective second user account and any members of the gift giving group until the payment information associated with the respective second user account is validated;
receive a confirmation, via an e-commerce interface, of validation of the payment information received from at least one of the second user accounts;
in response to receiving the confirmation of the validation of the payment information associated with the at least one second user account, correlate, on a memory device, the at least one second user account to the gift giving group identifier,
determine a giver/recipient correlation between the first user account and the at least one second user account,
associate a giver identifier with the first user account based on the giver/recipient correlation,
associate, on the memory device, a recipient identifier with the at least one second user accounts based on the giver/recipient correlation, wherein the first user account and the giver identifier are anonymous to the second user account, and the second user account and the recipient identifier are anonymous to the first user account, and
store in a database, the payment information associated with the at least one second user account and a gift giving deadline associated with the gift giving group;
relevancy circuitry disposed in electronic communication with the group management circuitry, a promotion assignment database comprised of a plurality of candidate promotion identifiers, and the network interface, wherein the relevancy circuitry is configured to:
access gift recipient consumer data associated with the at least one second user accounts, the gift recipient consumer data comprising at least one of recipient location, recipient interest, or past recipient purchases;
determine a relevancy score for each candidate promotion identifier of the promotion assignment database, each promotion identifier having an associated promotional value toward a purchase of a good or service, wherein each relevancy score is based on the gift recipient consumer data, a target price or price range associated with the gift giving group identifier in comparison to a cost associated with the respective candidate promotion identifier, and a location of redemption associated with the respective candidate promotion identifier;
determine a recommended promotion identifier based on the relevancy score for each candidate promotion identifier,
output a recommendation indication associated with the recommended promotion identifier, by the network interface, to the consumer device associated with the first user account, wherein the group management circuitry is further configured to, in response to determining, following expiration of the group gift giving deadline, that a gift has not been purchased for a recipient in the gift giving group, generate a purchase trigger indication associated with a respective giver for purchase of a most relevant promotion for the recipient, indicated by the relevancy scores of the respective candidate promotion identifiers; and
promotion assignment circuitry disposed in electronic communication with the promotion assignment database and the network interface, the promotion assignment circuitry configured to:
receive, by the network interface, the purchase trigger indication,
output a purchase indication to the promotion assignment database in response to receiving the purchase trigger indication,
output a purchase confirmation indication, by the network interface, in response to receiving the purchase trigger indication, and
output a redeemable gift indication, by the network interface, to a consumer device associated with the recipient.
7. The apparatus of claim 6 , wherein the one of the one or more second user accounts is selected from the one or more second user accounts at random.
8. The apparatus of claim 6 , wherein the redeemable gift indication is associated with at least a promotion indicative of a promotional value toward a purchase of any of a good or service.
9. The apparatus of claim 6 , wherein the relevancy circuitry determines the relevancy scores based on at least one a recipient location, recipient interests, or past recipient purchases.
10. The apparatus of claim 6 , wherein the group management circuitry is further configured to determine a maximum gift cost, and the relevancy circuitry determines the relevancy scored based on at least the maximum gift cost.