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Consumer presence based deal offers

  • US 10,235,692 B2
  • Filed: 03/13/2013
  • Issued: 03/19/2019
  • Est. Priority Date: 10/17/2012
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A merchant device comprising processing circuitry configured to:

  • facilitate communications with a consumer device and a central system, wherein the communications between the merchant device and the consumer device occur over a personal area network (PAN) and the communications between the merchant device and the central system occur over the Internet, wherein the PAN is a local network not connected to the Internet, and wherein the processing circuitry facilitates communications with the consumer device at least in part by being configured to discover consumer devices located within a communicable range of the processing circuitry and further by being configured to, subsequent to discovering the consumer device, automatically create the PAN;

    wirelessly receive anonymized wallet identifying data from a consumer device via the PAN;

    transmit the anonymized wallet identifying data to the central system;

    receive, from the central system, consumer identifying data associated with the anonymized wallet identifying data; and

    display, via a merchant device display, consumer information based on at least some of the consumer identifying data.

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