Method of analyzing email content of registered users of a website and present these users with an offer

• US 20070203784A1
• Filed: 04/18/2007
• Published: 08/30/2007
• Est. Priority Date: 01/07/1999
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Arthur Keller, Sanjai Tiwari
• Original Assignee: Arthur Keller, Sanjai Tiwari
• Inventors: Keller, Arthur, Tiwari, Sanjai
• Application Number:
  US11/788,059
• Publication Number:
  US 20070203784A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 705/10
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/02 Marketing; Price estimation or determination; Fundraising
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0207 Discounts or incentives, e.g. coupons or rebates
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0256 User search

Abstract

The invention is a method for analyzing content of email messages of registered users of an electronic commerce website and presenting these users with an offer (e.g., a digital coupon, a sale offer, or an advertisement) relevant to the analyzed email content.

Claims

1. A method of analyzing the content of email messages of registered users of an electronic commerce website and presenting said users with at least one offer relevant to said analyzed content, said method comprising:

(a) accepting registrations from a plurality of electronic commerce users;

(b) allocating a registration email address to each of said registered electronic commerce users;

(c) receiving at a server email messages pertaining said registration email addresses of said registered users, said server configured to receive said email messages for said registration email addresses;

(d) loading said email messages into a structured storage system;

(e) analyzing the content of one or more of said email messages pertaining to at least one of said registered users to determine one or more relevant offers to present to said at least one of said registered users; and

(f) presenting to said at least one of said registered users at least one offer relevant to the content of at least one of said email messages pertaining to at least one of said registered users.

2. The method as set forth in claim 1, wherein said offer is a digital coupon, a sale offer or an advertisement.