RECEIVING AN ANNOUNCEMENT TRIGGERED BY LOCATION DATA
First Claim
1. A computer implemented method for announcing to an announcement recipient that a consumer is located within a region that is of interest to a merchant, the computer implemented method comprising the steps of:
- specifying to an announcement distributor, using a computing apparatus executing software, an announcement condition that includes presence of a first said consumer within the region that is of interest to the merchant;
andreceiving, using the computing apparatus executing the software, a first electronic transmission including the announcement from the announcement distributor, wherein the receiving step occurs after the announcement condition has been satisfied and while the first said consumer is within the region.
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Abstract
An announcement distributor distributes, or auctions an opportunity to distribute, an announcement to an announcement recipient such as a consumer, issuer, merchant, or acquirer within a payment processing system. The announcement when there has been a satisfaction of an announcement condition, such as the consumer being determined to be located within a predetermined spatial zone. The content of the announcement may, in turn, facilitate a subsequent cashless transaction for resources of merchants. Implementations describe various permutations of the content of the announcement, the announcement condition, and the announcement recipient.
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20 Claims
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1. A computer implemented method for announcing to an announcement recipient that a consumer is located within a region that is of interest to a merchant, the computer implemented method comprising the steps of:
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specifying to an announcement distributor, using a computing apparatus executing software, an announcement condition that includes presence of a first said consumer within the region that is of interest to the merchant; and receiving, using the computing apparatus executing the software, a first electronic transmission including the announcement from the announcement distributor, wherein the receiving step occurs after the announcement condition has been satisfied and while the first said consumer is within the region. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8)
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9. A computer implemented method announcing information about a consumer to a merchant, the computer implemented method comprising the steps of:
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forming, using a computing apparatus executing software, a first transmission that is addressed to an announcement distributor and includes; a merchant indicator usable to determine a merchant address of the merchant; and an announcement condition, wherein the announcement condition is satisfied when at least one preset criterion matches information derived from data received from a first portable consumer device of a first consumer; and receiving, using the computing apparatus executing the software, an announcement at the merchant address from the announcement distributor after the announcement condition is satisfied, wherein the announcement; includes the derived information; and is received in close temporal proximity to a time that the announcement condition is satisfied. - View Dependent Claims (10, 11, 12, 13, 14)
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15. A merchant apparatus comprising a computer readable medium including stored instructions that, when executed by a computing device, the computing device performs the steps of:
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specifying to an announcement distributor an announcement condition that includes presence of a first portable consumer device of a consumer within a spatial region; and receiving an announcement about the consumer after the announcement condition has been satisfied and while the first portable consumer device is within the spatial region. - View Dependent Claims (16, 17, 18, 19, 20)
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