Systems and methods for autonomous management of manufacturer coupons
Methods and systems may support dynamic, real-time or near-real-time processing, analysis, and processing of data to automatically identify and obtain coupons corresponding to consumer products such that, in response to receiving a request to purchase one or more products, qualifying coupons may be automatically identified, retrieved, and applied to the purchase.
1. A computing system:
one or more processors; and
one or more computer memories storing non-transitory computer-executable instructions that, when executed via the one or more processors, cause the computing system to:
transmit a request for a server to generate and provide one or more available coupons as a portable document format (PDF) file or webpage representing the one or more available coupons;
obtain the generated PDF or webpage from the third-party server;
extract relevant coupon data for the one or more available coupons from the obtained PDF or webpage at least by (1) identifying an electronic file format of the obtained PDF or webpage, (2) standardizing or resizing the downloaded PDF or webpage based upon a pixel width of the downloaded PDF or webpage, (3) determining a pixel location of a bounding box containing the relevant coupon data within the standardized or resized PDF or webpage, and (4) applying an optical character recognition technique within the determined bounding box to identify text corresponding to the relevant coupon data; and
using the extracted relevant coupon data, apply the one or more available coupons in relation to a purchase of one or more products.
2. The computing system of claim 1 , wherein the one or more products comprise one or more prescription medications.
3. The computing system of claim 1 , wherein the non-transitory computer-executable instructions, when executed via the one or more processors, further cause the computing system to analyze a request from a user to purchase the one or more products, to determine whether the request qualifies for the one or more available coupons.
4. The computing system of claim 3 , wherein determining whether the request qualifies for the one or more available coupons includes determining whether a user requesting to purchase the one or more products satisfies one or more criteria.
5. The computing system of claim 3 , wherein the non-transitory computer-executable instructions, when executed via the one or more processors, further cause the computing system to update the request to purchase the one or more products after applying the one or more available coupons in order to adjust a price of the one or more products.
6. The computing system of claim 1 , further comprising a clock component configured to define a frequency with which the computing system communicates with the server to identify available coupons.
7. The computing system of claim 1 , wherein the relevant coupon data comprises a barcode.
8. A computer-implemented method implemented via one or more processors, the method comprising:
transmitting a request for a server to generate and provide one or more available coupons as a portable document format (PDF) file or webpage representing the one or more available coupons;
obtaining the generated PDF or webpage from the third-party server;
extracting relevant coupon data for the one or more available coupons from the obtained PDF or webpage at least by (1) identifying an electronic file format of the obtained PDF or webpage, (2) standardizing or resizing the downloaded PDF or webpage based upon a pixel width of the downloaded PDF or webpage, (3) determining a pixel location of a bounding box containing the relevant coupon data within the standardized or resized PDF or webpage, and (4) applying an optical character recognition technique within the determined bounding box to identify text corresponding to the relevant coupon data; and
using the extracted relevant coupon data, applying the one or more available coupons in relation to a purchase of one or more products.
9. The computer-implemented method of claim 8 , wherein the one or more products comprise one or more prescription medications.
10. The computer-implemented method of claim 8 , further comprising analyzing a request from a user to purchase the one or more products, to determine whether the request qualifies for the one or more available coupon.
11. The computer-implemented method of claim 10 , wherein determining whether the request qualifies for the one or more available coupons includes determining whether a user requesting to purchase the one or more products satisfies one or more criteria.
12. The computer-implemented method of claim 10 , further comprising updating the request to purchase the one or more products after applying the one or more available coupons in order to adjust a price of the one or more products.
13. The computer-implemented method of claim 8 , comprising communicating with the server at pre-determined time intervals based upon a frequency defined by a clock component.
14. The computer-implemented method of claim 8 , wherein the relevant coupon data comprises a barcode.
15. One or more non-transitory computer-readable media storing non-transitory computer-executable instructions that, when executed via one or more processors of one or more computers, cause the one or more computers to:
transmit a request for a server to generate and provide one or more available coupons as a portable document format (PDF) file or webpage representing the one or more available coupons;
obtain the generated PDF or webpage from the third-party server;
extract relevant coupon data for the one or more available coupons from the obtained PDF or webpage at least by (1) identifying an electronic file format of the obtained PDF or webpage, (2) standardizing or resizing the downloaded PDF or webpage based upon a pixel width of the downloaded PDF or webpage, (3) determining a pixel location of a bounding box containing the relevant coupon data within the standardized or resized PDF or webpage, and (4) applying an optical character recognition technique within the determined bounding box to identify text corresponding to the relevant coupon data; and
using the extracted relevant coupon data, apply the one or more available coupons in relation to a purchase of one or more products.
16. The one or more non-transitory computer-readable media of claim 15 , wherein the one or more products comprise one or more prescription medications.
17. The one or more non-transitory computer-readable media of claim 15 , wherein the non-transitory computer-executable instructions, when executed via the one or more processors, further cause the one or more computers to analyze a request from a user to purchase the one or more products, to determine whether the request qualifies for the one or more available coupons.
18. The one or more non-transitory computer-readable media of claim 17 , wherein determining whether the request qualifies for the one or more available coupons includes determining whether a user requesting to purchase the one or more products satisfies one or more criteria.
19. The one or more non-transitory computer-readable media of claim 17 , wherein the non-transitory computer-executable instructions, when executed via the one or more processors, further cause the one or more computers to update the request to purchase the one or more products after applying the one or more available coupons in order to adjust a price of the one or more products.
20. The one or more non-transitory computer-readable media of claim 15 , wherein the non-transitory computer-executable instructions, when executed via the one or more processors, further cause the one or more computers to utilize a clock component to communicate with the server at pre-determined time intervals based upon a frequency defined by the clock component.