Groupon had six patents in mobile during Q4 2023. Groupon Inc’s patents filed in Q4 2023 focus on systems and methods for facilitating interactions between merchants, central systems, and consumers using wallet identifying data for secure messaging. Another patent discusses initiating commands through consumer input definitions and compound consumer inputs stored on a storage device. Additionally, there is a patent for generating interactive three-dimensional environments with virtual interfaces that lead to virtual simulations related to specific items. GlobalData’s report on Groupon gives a 360-degreee view of the company including its patenting strategy. Buy the report here.
Groupon grant share with mobile as a theme is 50% in Q4 2023. Grant share is based on the ratio of number of grants to total number of patents.
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Application: Consumer device based point-of-sale (Patent ID: US20230368183A1)
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The patent filed by Groupon Inc. discusses systems and methods for facilitating interactions between a merchant device, a central system, and a consumer device using wallet identifying data to secure messages over a wireless link. The merchant device receives wallet identifying data from a consumer device, transmits it to the central system, and receives consumer identifying data in response. This consumer identifying data may be associated with a unit of location, such as a dine-in location at a restaurant, to enhance consumer service.
The merchant device described in the patent includes communications circuitry to connect with consumer devices and a central system, processing circuitry to determine location data and match it with a unit of location at a merchant shop, and an output module to display a graphical representation of the floor plan with consumer identifying data. The method involves wirelessly receiving wallet identifying data from a consumer device, transmitting it to the central system, receiving consumer identifying data, determining location data, matching it with a unit of location, associating consumer identifying data with the location, and providing a user interface with the information. Various techniques such as NFC, RSSI, triangulation, and RFID may be used to determine location data based on wireless communication from the consumer device. Additionally, the method includes capturing a code associated with the consumer device and displaying it within the graphical representation of the floor plan for enhanced consumer service.
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