METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR AUTOMATICALLY GENERATING EVENT RELEVANT MARKETING DEVICES
First Claim
1. A computing system implemented process for automatically generating event relevant marketing devices comprising:
- using one or more processors associated with one or more computing systems to obtain events data from one or more sources of events data;
using one or more processors associated with one or more computing systems to obtain offer data from a merchant;
using one or more processors associated with one or more computing systems to match at least part of the events data to at least part of the offer data;
using one or more processors associated with one or more computing systems to automatically transform at least part of the matched events data and offer data into an at least one event relevant marketing device; and
using one or more processors associated with one or more computing systems to distribute the at least one event relevant marketing device to one or more consumers.
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Abstract
A method and system for automatically generating event relevant marketing devices whereby events data is obtained from one or more sources that indicates upcoming events of interest to a merchant. Offer data to be associated with a marketing device is obtained from the merchant. The offer data, and/or the merchant submitting the offer data, indicates the merchant, and/or services offered by merchant, and/or products offered by merchant. The offer data is then mapped to one or more event types using a merchant/product/service type-to-event type mapping system and the events data is searched to identify a relevant event represented by the events data that is of the event type mapped to the offer data. The offer data and the portion of the events data representing the identified relevant event is then “matched” and used to automatically generate one or more event relevant marketing devices that include at least part of the matched offer data and at least part of the matched relevant event data.
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1. A computing system implemented process for automatically generating event relevant marketing devices comprising:
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using one or more processors associated with one or more computing systems to obtain events data from one or more sources of events data; using one or more processors associated with one or more computing systems to obtain offer data from a merchant; using one or more processors associated with one or more computing systems to match at least part of the events data to at least part of the offer data; using one or more processors associated with one or more computing systems to automatically transform at least part of the matched events data and offer data into an at least one event relevant marketing device; and using one or more processors associated with one or more computing systems to distribute the at least one event relevant marketing device to one or more consumers. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6)
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7. A computing system implemented process for automatically generating event relevant marketing devices comprising:
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using one or more processors associated with one or more computing systems to obtain events data from one or more sources of events data; using one or more processors associated with one or more computing systems to obtain offer data from a merchant; using one or more processors associated with one or more computing systems to obtain consumer profile data associated with one or more consumers; using one or more processors associated with one or more computing systems to match at least part of the events data to at least part of the offer data; using one or more processors associated with one or more computing systems to automatically transform at least part of the matched events data and offer data into an at least one event relevant marketing device; using one or more processors associated with one or more computing systems to match at least part of the matched events data and offer data of the at least one event relevant marketing device to at least part of the consumer profile data associated with one or more matched consumers of the one or more consumers; and using one or more processors associated with one or more computing systems to distribute the at least one event relevant marketing device to the one or more matched consumers. - View Dependent Claims (8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14)
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15. A system for automatically generating event relevant marketing devices comprising:
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a merchant computing system accessible by a merchant; offer data stored in a storage means, at least part of the offer data having been obtained from the merchant thorough the merchant computing system; a consumer computing system accessible by a consumer; events data stored in a storage means; a merchant/product/service type-to-event type mapping system that matches merchants, and/or services offered by merchants, and/or products offered by merchants, to types of events that are potentially related to, and/or are associated with, and/or logically connected to, the merchants, services, and/or products; and a marketing device server, the marketing device server including one or more processors associated with one or more computing systems for implementing at least a portion of a process for automatically generating event relevant marketing devices, the process for automatically generating event relevant marketing devices comprising; using the one or more processors associated with the marketing device server and the merchant/product/service type-to-event type mapping system to match at least part of the events data to at least part of the offer data; using the one or more processors associated with the marketing device server to automatically transform at least part of the matched events data and offer data into an at least one event relevant marketing device; and using the one or more processors associated with the marketing device server to distribute the at least one event relevant marketing device to the consumer computing system. - View Dependent Claims (16, 17, 18, 19)
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20. A system for automatically generating event relevant marketing devices comprising:
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a merchant computing system accessible by a merchant; offer data stored in a storage means, at least part of the offer data having been obtained from the merchant thorough the merchant computing system; one or more consumer computing systems accessible by one or more consumers; events data stored in a storage means; consumer profile data associated with one or more consumers stored in a storage means; a merchant/product/service type-to-event type mapping system that matches merchants, and/or services offered by merchants, and/or products offered by merchants, to types of events that are potentially related to, and/or are associated with, and/or logically connected to, the merchants, services, and/or products; and a marketing device server, the marketing device server including one or more processors associated with one or more computing systems for implementing at least a portion of a process for automatically generating event relevant marketing devices, the process for automatically generating event relevant marketing devices comprising; using the one or more processors associated with the marketing device server and the merchant/product/service type-to-event type mapping system to match at least part of the events data to at least part of the offer data; using the one or more processors associated with the marketing device server to automatically transform at least part of the matched events data and offer data into an at least one event relevant marketing device; using the one or more processors associated with the marketing device server to match at least part of the matched events data and offer data of the at least one event relevant marketing device to at least part of the consumer profile data associated with one or more matched consumers of the one or more consumers; and using the one or more processors associated with the marketing device server to distribute the at least one event relevant marketing device to the one or more consumer computing systems associated with the one or more matched consumers. - View Dependent Claims (21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26)
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