System and method for metadata use in advertising
First Claim
Patent Images
1. A method for using customer data gathered at a point of sale for later advertising, comprising:
- gathering consumer information related to a consumer from at least one merchant regarding a product at time of purchase to affect service registration and/or product registration and/or warranty registration;
gathering metadata from the consumer information from at least the point of sale to determine potential use of the product; and
using at least the consumer information and/or the metadata from the consumer information to market goods and/or services to the consumer.
1 Assignment
0 Petitions
Accused Products
Abstract
Information is elicited from a consumer electronics device purchaser at the point of sale and used to provide targeted advertising to the purchaser and/or to facilitate service provision to the purchaser related to the CE device by a third party service provider and/or to provide the information to an entity for a fee such that the entity can provide targeted advertising to the purchaser to provide improved correlation of the purchaser with needed products or services.
-
Citations
20 Claims
-
1. A method for using customer data gathered at a point of sale for later advertising, comprising:
-
gathering consumer information related to a consumer from at least one merchant regarding a product at time of purchase to affect service registration and/or product registration and/or warranty registration; gathering metadata from the consumer information from at least the point of sale to determine potential use of the product; and using at least the consumer information and/or the metadata from the consumer information to market goods and/or services to the consumer. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5)
-
-
6. A method for detecting potential demand for second goods and/or services by a purchaser of first goods and/or services, comprising:
-
gathering consumer information related to a consumer from at least one merchant regarding a product at time of purchase to affect service registration and/or product registration and/or warranty registration; gathering metadata from the consumer information from at least the point of sale to determine potential use of the product; and providing at least the consumer information and/or the metadata from the consumer information to a provider of goods and/or services, the provider being other than the merchant. - View Dependent Claims (7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17)
-
-
18. A method comprising:
-
gathering first consumer data at a point of sale of a consumer electronics (CE) device, the first consumer data being automatically gathered from at least consumer-provided payment instrument and from at least product identification; incentivizing a consumer to provide second data related to the consumer at the point of sale; and using at least the second data to undertake at least one of;
marketing additional products to the consumer, facilitating service provision to the consumer related to the CE device by a third party service provider, or providing the second data to an entity for a fee such that the entity can provide targeted advertising to the consumer to provide improved correlation of the consumer with needed products or services. - View Dependent Claims (19, 20)
-
Specification