TIME-SENSITIVE AND LOCATION-BASED COMMERCIAL OFFER SYSTEM

• US 20120259696A1
• Filed: 02/15/2012
• Published: 10/11/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 04/07/2011
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Deals Magazine Incorporated
• Original Assignee: Deals Magazine Incorporated
• Inventors: Monteverde, Dante
• Application Number:
  US13/397,228
• Publication Number:
  US 20120259696A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 705/14.49
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0251 Targeted advertisements

Abstract

A method, system, apparatus and computer program to notify a user of a commercial offer that is time-sensitive and time-specific. The user can be notified of commercial offers associated with locations near the user'"'"'s current or predicted location. The commercial offers are time-specific, for example, a commercial offer for breakfast that can only be used during morning hours. As such, the commercial offers can be provided to consumers that are commonly located in the area of the vendor offering the commercial offer at the time of day in which the commercial offer is most relevant.

Claims

1. A method of delivering a commercial offer to a group of users comprising:

establishing a specified price for a product;

selecting a first subset of the group of users, the first subset being limited in number and predetermined by a processor;

transmitting the commercial offer to the first subset;

selecting a second subset of the group of users; and

transmitting the commercial offer to the second subset of the group of users after a specified amount of time has passed after the commercial offer is transmitted to the first subset.

2. The method of claim 1, further comprising preventing a user from the group of users from obtaining the commercial offer until the user performs a predetermined action.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein the second subset of the group of users is limited in number and predetermined by the processor.