IP Library Granted Patent US 11,164,206
Granted Patent B2
US 11,164,206 · App. 16/194,189 · Granted Nov 2, 2021

Automatically aggregating, evaluating, and providing a contextually relevant offer

Inventor: Shannon Andrick (Columbus, OH)
Assignee: Comenity LLC
G06Q30/0239G06F16/24575G06F16/24578
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Patent No.
US 11,164,206
App. No.
16/194,189
Granted
Nov 2, 2021
Kind
B2
Abstract

Systems and methods for automatically aggregating, evaluating, and providing a contextually relevant offer or incentive is disclosed. One method obtains a plurality of offers for a customer. Each of the plurality of offers is then evaluated to determine a contextual relevance of each of the plurality of offers. Each of the plurality of offers is then sorted into a best contextually relevant offer to a least contextually relevant offer order. The obtaining, evaluating, and sorting is continuously repeated until a time for using an offer is identified. The system and method then present the best contextually relevant offer.

Claims (39)

1. A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium having instructions embodied therein that when executed cause a user's mobile computing device to perform a method comprising:

automatically obtaining a plurality of digital offers, said automatically obtaining comprising:

searching one or more social media platforms for one or more of the plurality of offers;

searching one or more credit accounts of said user for one or more of the plurality of offers;

searching one or more email accounts of said user for one or more of the plurality of offers;

searching one or more Internet websites for one or more of the plurality of offers; and

searching one or more images in a memory of said user's mobile computing device for one or more of the plurality of offers;

reviewing each of the plurality of offers for a metadata, the metadata consisting of: an expiration date, an alternative tender value, a customer history, an interest rate, a reduced rate length, and a no interest length;

receiving a contextual reference input, said contextual reference input defining a contextual relevance for said user, said contextual relevance selected from at least one of a group consisting of: a percentage off, a cash back value, a credit account APR, and a number of reward points;

receiving an item of interest identified by said user;

obtaining, from a global positioning system (GPS) on said user's mobile computing device, real-time location information;

obtaining real-time situational information for said user;

providing a query to the user;

receiving a response to the query;

automatically evaluating each of the plurality of digital offers to determine a contextual relevance value for each of the plurality of digital offers for said item of interest, wherein the evaluating utilizes said metadata from each of the plurality of offers, said user contextual reference input, and said response to said query in conjunction with said real-time location information and said real-time situational information to determine said contextual relevance value;

automatically sorting each of the plurality of digital offers into a most contextually relevant digital offer to a least contextually relevant digital offer order;

continuously repeating the automatically obtaining of said plurality of digital offers, said obtaining real-time location information, obtaining real-time situational information, said automatically evaluating, and said automatically sorting until a time for purchasing said item of interest is identified; and

automatically presenting, on a display of said user's mobile computing device, the most contextually relevant digital offer for said item of interest at said identified time for purchasing.

2. A mobile device comprising:

a display;

a global position system (GPS), said GPS to determine real-time location information of said mobile device;

a memory, said memory for storing instructions; and

one or more processors, said one or more processors to execute the instructions, to:

automatically obtain a plurality of offers for a user, the plurality of offers automatically obtained via a search comprising:

one or more social media platforms for one or more of the plurality of offers;

one or more credit accounts of said user for one or more of the plurality of offers;

one or more email accounts for one or more of the plurality of offers;

one or more Internet websites for one or more of the plurality of offers; and

one or more images in said memory of said mobile device for one or more of the plurality of offers;

review each of the plurality of offers for a metadata, the metadata consisting of: an expiration date, an alternative tender value, a customer history, an interest rate, a reduced rate length, and a no interest length;

receive a contextual reference input, said contextual reference input to define a contextual relevance for said user, said contextual relevance selected from at least one of a group consisting of: a percentage off, a cash back value, a credit account APR, and a number of reward points;

receive an item of interest identified by said user;

obtain real-time situational information for said user;

provide a query to the user;

receive a response to the query;

automatically evaluate each of the plurality of offers to determine a contextual relevance value for each of the plurality of offers for said item of interest, wherein the evaluation utilizes said metadata from each of the plurality of offers, said user contextual reference input, and said response to said query in conjunction with said real-time situational information, and said real-time location information to determine said contextual relevance value;

automatically sort each of the plurality of offers into a most contextually relevant offer to a least contextually relevant offer order;

continuously repeat the automatic obtaining of said plurality of offers, said automatic obtaining of said real-time situational information, said automatic evaluation, and said automatic sorting until a time for purchasing said item of interest is identified; and

automatically present, on said display, the most contextually relevant offer for said item of interest at said identified time for purchasing.

Assignments (2)
MERGER AND CHANGE OF NAME Recorded Mar 21, 2023
From: COMENITY LLC; BREAD FINANCIAL PAYMENTS, INC
To: BREAD FINANCIAL PAYMENTS, INC.
Reel/Frame 063125/0756 →
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Nov 16, 2018
From: ANDRICK, SHANNON
To: COMENITY LLC
Reel/Frame 047532/0505 →
Continuity (1)
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