SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR MOBILE AND ONLINE PAYMENT SYSTEMS FOR PURCHASES RELATED TO MOBILE AND ONLINE PROMOTIONS OR OFFERS PROVIDED USING IMPRESSIONS TRACKING AND ANALYSIS, LOCATION INFORMATION, 2D AND 3D MAPPING, MOBILE MAPPING, SOCIAL MEDIA, AND USER BEHAVIOR AND INFORMATION FOR GENERATING MOBILE AND INTERNET POSTED PROMOTIONS OR OFFERS FOR, AND/OR SALES OF, PRODUCTS AND/OR SERVICES IN A SOCIAL NETWORK, ONLINE OR VIA A MOBILE DEVICE

• US 20140006129A1
• Filed: 07/17/2012
• Published: 01/02/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 09/15/2011
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Stephan Heath
• Original Assignee: Stephan Heath
• Inventors: Heath, Stephan
• Granted Patent: US 9,710,821 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 705/14.23
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/02 Marketing; Price estimation or determination; Fundraising
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0222 During e-commerce, i.e. online transactions
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0261 based on user location

Abstract

A method, apparatus, computer readable medium, computer system, network, or system is provided for mobile and online payment systems for mobile and online promotions or offers or daily deal coupons or daily deal coupons aggregation provided using impressions tracking and analysis, location information, 2D and 3D mapping, social media, and user behavior and information for generating mobile and internet posted promotions or offers or daily deal coupons or daily deal coupons aggregation for, and/or sales of, products and/or services in a social network, online or via a mobile device-for mobile and web based promotions or offers that connect information and user behavior data to a user or related demographic location or user specified or predicted demographic location(s) for targeted promotions or offers for products and/or services in a social network, online or via a mobile device.

Claims

1. A method for purchasing a product or service by selecting from generated mobile, wireless, and internet posted, location based, customized promotions or offers or daily deal coupons or daily deal coupons aggregation for products or services, and purchasing such products or services, using (i) location information data, (ii) 2D and 3D mapping data, (iii) user internet activity data;

and (iv) social networking interaction data, the method comprising;

(a) electronically assigning, on an electronic computing system via a processor, a unique identifier to a user of a client mobile device or client computer or mobile device receiving a request from said user, through a client application operating on the client mobile device or computer, to access a location based, customized, promotion or offer comprising website or window, the request including the identifier assigned to the user or the client;

(b) electronically providing to said user, via a mobile or wireless device or computer, mobile and internet posting of said location based, customized, promotion, or offer on said promotions or offer comprising website for products or services, wherein said location based, customized, promotions or offers or daily deal coupons or daily deal coupons aggregation are selected for said user based on data comprising;

(i) location information data relating to selected;

(A) users, target markets, demographic groups or geographic data;

(B) (1) products or services;

or (2) daily deal coupons or daily deal coupons aggregation;

or (3) product or service providers; and

(C) points of interest near or associated with (1) said users, target markets, demographic groups or geographic data;

(2) said products or services;

or (3) said daily deal coupons or daily deal coupons aggregation;

or (4) said product or service providers;

(iii) 2D and 3D mapping data related to selected;

(A) user, target market or demographic group locations or associated locations;

or (B) product or service or promotion or offer or service provider locations or associated locations;

(iv) user internet activity data relating to user searching, browsing, purchases, location, interactions, and interests;

(v) social networking data of interactions between said user and other users, target markets, and demographics groups and geographic data; and

(vi) generated marketing and mapping data of relationships between members of a social network or website; and

(c) purchasing said product or service by said user;

wherein said data in step (b) optionally further comprises (vii) impressions data comprising tracking and analysis of website access of said user'"'"'s, target markets'"'"' users, demographic groups or geographic data;

wherein said selection of said data for said user optionally further comprises electronically collecting and analyzing behavior information of said user, said behavior information comprising;

(a) said impressions tracking and analysis;

(b) said location information;

(c) said 2D and 3D mapping;

(d) said user internet activity; and

(e) said social networking interactions.

wherein said location based, customized, promotions or offers or daily deal coupons or daily deal coupons aggregation are optionally selected from the group consisting of a coupon, an advertisement, a location-based promotion, a location-based offer, a location-based discount, a daily deal ad, daily deal coupons, daily deal coupons aggregation, location-based advertising, a location-based ad, a location-based deal or offer, a mobile ads, a mobile ad network, mobile advertising, mobile location-based advertising, a customer loyalty card, a discounts, a promotion, an offer, a location-based promotion, an online or mobile coupon or promotion, a coupon alert, a searched promotion or offer, a shared promotion or offer, daily deal coupons, daily deal coupons aggregation, mobile location-based advertising, a promotions or offers or daily deal coupons or daily deal coupons aggregation associated with a location or a map in a social network or website online or mobile device, a location-based mobile coupon, a mobile grocery coupon, a mobile ad products, a targeted mobile ad, a mobile advertising network, and a mobile coupon.

2. A method according to claim 1, wherein said purchasing is accomplished using a performed by an application that is executed by a processor of a computer or mobile device, the method comprising:

(a) electronically receiving input data sets to the computer or mobile device from a user that specifies that, payment objects corresponding to a first payment method are to be sent to a first payment processor;

(b) electronically receiving input data sets to the computer or mobile device from the user specifying that payment objects corresponding to a second payment method are to be sent to a second payment processor;

(c) electronically storing the first and second input data sets in a database table which is stored in a computer or mobile device storage medium of the computer or mobile device, wherein the database table includes a payment method column and a payment processor column such that each payment method listed in the database table is associated with a payment processor defined in the same row as the payment method such that the payment processor to which a corresponding payment method is sent is updatable by modifying the value of the payment processor in the corresponding row of the database table without requiring the receding of the application and such that by modifying the payment processor value in the same row as the payment method, a corresponding payment method is sent to a different payment processor corresponding to the modified payment processor value;

(c) electronically receiving input data sets to the computer or mobile device from a second user regarding a set of one or more goods to purchase in a single purchase transaction;

(d) electronically receiving input data sets to the computer or mobile device from the second user regarding a plurality of payment methods by which the set of one or more goods are to be purchased;

(e) electronically creating data collection sets of payment objects in memory of the computer or mobile device wherein the collection contains an object for each payment method, wherein each object indicates the associated payment method and an amount to pay using the payment method for which the object was created;

(f) electronically receiving the data collection sets of payment objects at a payment router that is being executed by the processor of the computer or mobile device, wherein each of the payment objects is associated with other information that includes information about a shopping cart in the form of an OrderForm dictionary, and configuration information needed to execute a pipeline in the form of a Context dictionary,

(g) the payment router accessing each payment object in the collection of payment objects to determine the associated payment method for each payment object;

(h) the payment router using the associated payment method for each payment object to retrieve the corresponding payment processor from the database table; and

(i) for each payment object;

(A) the payment router copying data derived from the payment object to the associated Context dictionary with a payment-to-process key; and

(B) the payment router routing a payment request corresponding to the payment object to the corresponding payment provider to request payment in the amount, specified in the payment object by executing the pipeline using the Context dictionary and OrderForm dictionary.

3. Tire method of claim 2, further comprising subsequent to sending data derived from each payment object to the corresponding payment provider, receiving input from the user that specifies that payment objects corresponding to the first payment method are to be sent to a third payment processor such that the database table is updated such that the third payment processor is associated with the first payment method without requiring the application to be recoded.

4. The method of claim 3, wherein a type of the first payment method comprises a credit card, a cash card, a gift, certificate, a purchase order, a coupon, an offer, or a money order;

wherein a type of the second payment method is optionally different than the type of the first payment method;

wherein the plurality of payment methods optionally comprise one or more of a credit card, a cash card, a gift certificate, a purchase order, a money order, and a proprietary payment method;

wherein the plurality of payment methods optionally comprise at least two credit cards;

optionally wherein the database table further includes;

an identifier type column with, identifier type fields storing type identifiers for identifying payment method types, wherein each different type of payment method is associated with a different type identifier within the identifier type field of the database table;

optionally wherein related payment methods are associated with the same type identifier, with credit card payment methods being identified by a first type identifier, cash cards being identified by a second type identifier, gift certificates being identified by a third type identifier, and money orders being identified by a fourth type identifier;

optionally wherein sending data derived from each payment object to the corresponding payment provider to request payment in the amount specified in the payment object comprises executing a pipeline for each object and providing the object to the pipeline, wherein the pipeline includes a payment router and one or more corresponding payment processors;

optionally wherein the one or more goods farther comprises one or more products or services.

8. A method of claim 1, wherein said promotions or offers, products, or services, are paid for by mobile or Internet based payments from users, members, publishers, marketers, user/consumers or third parties, optionally further comprising clicking on a web based promotion fink, banner, coupon, promotion or offer or dally deaf coupons or daily deal coupons aggregation, discount, window, or pop-up.

9. A method of claim 1, wherein selected promotions or offers or daily deal coupons or daily deal coupons aggregation automatically give users discounts on their purchases at participating merchants that generate marketing and mapping relationships between members of a social network or website and third party websites or applications.

10. A method of claim 1, wherein said media used in said promotions or offers or daily deal coupons or daily deal coupons aggregation, are selected from, the group consisting of live or pre-recorded audio or video media, and wherein the purchase of a product or service by a user or member automatically gives users or members discounts on additional purchases at participating merchants.

11. A method of claim 1, wherein selected promotions or offers or daily deal coupons or daily deal coupons aggregation, coupons, products or services automatically populate a social network website display, a user page, web page, or website, based upon the user'"'"'s or member'"'"'s location or geographic location of a mobile device, wireless device, tablet or other electronic device, user'"'"'s or member'"'"'s profile, or user'"'"'s or member'"'"'s preferences.

12. A method of claim 1. wherein a selected online payment system is displayed when a user or member clicks on a displayed coupon, promotion or offer or daily deal coupons or daily deal coupons aggregation, product, or service, based upon the user'"'"'s or member'"'"'s location or geographic location of a mobile device, wireless device, tablet or other electronic device, profile, or lifestyle preferences.

13. A method of claim 1, wherein a selected online payment system is displayed when a user or member clicks on a displayed virtual ad, digital act, virtual billboard ad, or virtual ad impression, optionally further comprising a display of a virtual advertising image on a virtual landscape or integrated into the background of a social networking websites, third party website or application, live or pre-recorded video.

14. A method of claim 1, wherein selected online coupons, position-based services, ad links, location-based promotions, location-based offers, location-based coupons, promotions or offers or daily deal coupons or daily deal coupons aggregation are displayed in connection with an online or mobile news feed.

15. A method of claim 1, wherein a selected user'"'"'s or member'"'"'s location or geographic location of a mobile device, wireless device, tablet or other electronic device, search results, maps in relationship to points of interest, user generated content, online coupons, position-based services, ad links, location-based promotions, location-based offers, location-based coupons, promotions or offers or daily deal coupons or daily deal coupons aggregation are displayed in connection with a social network, website, or online or mobile commerce.

16. A method of claim 1, wherein selected user or publisher data across one or multiple applications, platforms, mobile and internet websites, promotions or offers or daily deal coupons or daily deal coupons aggregation, and generated user behavior data are provided as cloud-type configuration using cloud services storing and handling.

17. A method of claim 1, wherein a user or member or advertiser can select or generate a coupon, promotion or offer that is shared with other users or members of a social network or website and is redeemable at a selected physical location, online, or via a mobile device.

18. A method of claim 1, wherein the method further comprises collecting and analyzing social tracking data and impressions data of a user'"'"'s or member'"'"'s location or geographic location of a mobile device, wireless device, tablet or other electronic device, maps in relationship to points of interest, online channels, likes or dislikes, social networking interactions, clicks, sharing links or updates, in order to generate mobile, wireless, and internet posted, location, based, customized promotions or offers or daily deal coupons or daily deal coupons aggregation for products or services, promotions or offers, using (i) impressions data, (ii) location information data, (iii) 2D and 3D mapping data, (iv) user internet activity data;

and (v) social networking interaction data, to provide coupons, promotions, or offers in a social network or website or online or via a mobile device.

19. A method of claim 1, wherein a user'"'"'s or member'"'"'s computer, mobile device, wireless device, tablet or other electronic device receives a video or audio alert or text message in connection with a mobile, wireless and internet posted, location based, customized promotions or offers or daily deal coupons or daily deal coupons aggregation for products or services, promotions or offers are displayed in connection with a social network, website or online or mobile commerce based upon the user'"'"'s or member'"'"'s location or geographic location of a mobile device, wireless device, tablet or other electronic device, profile, or lifestyle preferences, wherein said alert or message is via a computer, a mobile device, a tablet, a smart phone, or internet access device.

5. A method for purchasing a product or service by selecting a promotion or offer through providing social shopping in combination with 2D and 3D mapping interactive displays and social networking, said method comprising:

(a) collecting and analyzing initial end user or member data via a processor on a computer or mobile device to provide initial end user or member data sets, said initial end user or member data sets comprising;

(1) initial end users'"'"' or members'"'"' impressions data comprising tracking and analysis of website access of users, target markets, demographic groups or geographic data;

(2) user or member profile data;

(3) location information data relating to selected;

(A) users, members, target markets, demographic groups or geographic data;

(B) (1) products or services;

or (2) daily deal coupons or daily deal coupons aggregation;

or (3) service providers; and

(C) points of interest near to or associated with said;

users, members, target markets, demographic groups or geographic data, product or services;

or product service providers;

(4) 2D and 3D mapping data selected from;

(A) said user, member, target market or demographic group locations or location interests;

or (B) (1) said product or service;

or (2) said daily deal coupons or daily deal coupons aggregation;

or (3) said product or service provider;

locations or associated locations;

(4) user or member internet activity data relating to searching, browsing, purchases, location, interactions, and/or interests;

(5) social networking data of interactions between users or members through networking interests or connections, channels, target markets, and demographics groups; and

(6) generated marketing and mapping data of relationships between members of a social network or website or via a mobile device;

(b) generating, via a processor on a computer system or mobile device or wireless device, first promotional data sets from said initial end user data sets, said first promotional data sets comprising first sets of customized promotions or offers or daily deal coupons or daily deal coupons aggregation that are provided as 2D, 3D, GPS, mobile mapping and location mapping, interactive displays, said first set of location based, customized, promotions or offers or daily deal coupons or daily deal coupons aggregation relating to products or services of said product or service or service providers, or related products or services, for each of (i) said initial end users or members, (ii) additional end users or members, and (iii) target end user groups;

wherein said generating comprises electronically monitoring, collecting, and analyzing behavior information accessed by the user, said behavior information comprising;

(1) data on said initial end users or members;

(2) data on said user or member profiles;

(3) data on said location information;

(4) data on said product or service;

or (5) said daily deal coupons or daily deal coupons aggregation or (6) said product or service providers;

(7) data on said points of interest;

(8) data on said 2D and 3D mapping data;

(9) data on said user or member internet activity; and

(10) data on said social networking interactions; and

(c) electronically displaying to said users, members, target markets, or demographics groups, on said 2D, 3D, GPS, mobile mapping and location mapping, interactive displays, said first set of location based, customized, promotions or offers or daily deal coupons or daily deal coupons aggregation that are displayed as ad links, promotion or offer information, or promotional media, wherein said first set is provided as part of a first social/geo/promo link category for a first position of a social/geo/promo link promotional data set;

(d) electronically identifying via a computer processor one or more second social/geo/promo link categories of said location based, customized, promotions or offers or daily deal coupons or daily deal coupons aggregation using one or more correlation criteria, at least one second social/geo/promo link category having one or more correlation criteria associated with said first social/geo/promo link category, wherein said second social/geo/promo links can be provided to additional 2D, 3D, GPS, mobile mapping and location mapping, interactive displays provided to one or more of said users, members, target markets, demographics groups or geographic data; and

(e) purchasing an item of said goods or services by said user selecting and clicking on one or more of said location based, customized, promotions or offers or daily deal coupons or daily deal coupons aggregation that are displayed as ad links, promotion or offer information, or promotional media;

wherein said generating step (b) optionally further comprises;

generating, via a processor on a computer system or mobile device or wireless device, second promotional data sets from said first promotional data sets, said second promotional data sets comprising second sets of location based, customized, promotions or offers or daily deal coupons or daily deal coupons aggregation that are provided as 2D, 3D, GPS, mobile mapping and location mapping, interactive displays, said second set of customized promotions or offers or daily deal coupons or daily deal coupons aggregation relating to products or services of said product or service or service providers, or related products or services, for each of (i) said initial end users or members, (ii) additional end users or members, and (iii) target end user groups;

wherein said displaying step (c) optionally further comprises;

electronically displaying to said users, members, target markets, or demographics groups, on said 2D, 3D, GPS, mobile mapping and location mapping, interactive display, said second set of location based, customized, promotions or offers or daily deal coupons or daily deal coupons aggregation that are displayed as ad links, promotion or offer information, or promotional media, wherein said second set is provided as part of said first social/geo/promo link category for said first position of a social/geo/promo link promotional data set;

optionally wherein identifying one or more second social/geo/promo link categories using one or more correlation criteria further comprises;

identifying one or more social/geo/promo link categories having a correlation measure that is less than a correlation threshold; and

optionally wherein at least one second social/geo/promo link category has a separate correlation measure for at least one pair-wise combination of a category identifier associated with the at least one second social/geo/promo link category and a category identifier associated with the first social/geo/promo link category.

6. A method according to claim 5, wherein said purchasing an item of said goods or services by said user comprises an automated online purchasing method, the purchasing method comprising the steps of:

(A) providing a buy button on said display, said buy button optionally having an appearance change in said buy button if said item is available for purchase;

(B) determining availability for sale of said item using annotations associated with one or more particular topics which identify said item, and which comprise nodes within a web labeled graph structure, wherein said annotations indicate any of specific vendors offering said item for sale, pricing, availability, and other users'"'"' selections or preferences of an available item and/or vendor;

(C) using said annotations to contact said vendor when said user clicks on said buy button to purchase said item;

wherein if said annotations indicate that more than one vendor is available, one of said available vendors is selected on preferences optionally further comprising vendors preferred by said user; and

wherein personal information required by said vendor to transact a sale is optionally extracted directly from said user information, without further input from said user; and

wherein said personal information comprises one selected from said users'"'"' preferred (i) method of payment, (ii) method of shipment, and (iii) shipping address;

optionally wherein said buy button may be selected when an item is unavailable to generate feedback that indicates there is a demand for said item or for said user to select a similar item or the same item available from other vendors;

optionally wherein social networking is provided as one selected from social shopping, social networking interactions, access to social networking websites or third party websites or applications, social plugins, social or business applications, SSLs, cookie and mobile cookie, browser cookie, advertising cookie, cookie-based targeting, flash cookie, location-based cookie and other third party cookie, and embedded advertisements;

optionally wherein said promotion or offer or service comprises job or employment services, or educational services;

optionally wherein said method further behavior information further comprises behavior tracking social media communications online or mobile with other social networks online or mobile, ad click impressions, profile targeting impressions, profiles of users, open source impressions, engagement impressions, media, search, video, mobile, cross-media and e-commerce impressions and mobile searches.

7. A method of claim 5, wherein said location-based, customized, promotions or offers or daily deal coupons or daily deal coupons aggregation include or are related to one selected from the group consisting of user'"'"'s or member'"'"'s location or geographic location of a mobile device, wireless device, tablet or other electronic device, search results, maps in relationship to points of interest, user generated content, location-based advertising, mobile location-based advertising, promotions or offers or daily deal coupons or daily deal coupons aggregation or promotions or offers and marketing and mapping impressions, real-time user/consumer data with user'"'"'s location, impressions for advertisers selected from user'"'"'s or member'"'"'s preferences, preferred locations, interests, networking interests or connections, channels;

location-based services, location-based promotions, location-based offers, location-based coupons, promotions or offers or daily deal coupons or daily deal coupons aggregation in connection with an online or mobile news feed, location-based discounts or daily deal ads, daily deal coupons, daily deal coupons aggregation, location-based advertising, location-based ads, location-based marketing, location-based commerce, location-based deals and offers, mobile ads, mobile ad network, mobile advertising, mobile location-based advertising and promotions, mobile banking and mobile wallet services, customer loyalty cards, discounts and promotions or offers or daily deal coupons or daily deal coupons aggregation and online or mobile payment system for coupons, location-based promotions, location-based offers, location-based coupons, promotions or offers or daily deal coupons or daily deal coupons aggregation in connection with an online or mobile news feed and online or mobile coupons and promotions or offers or daily deal coupons or daily deal coupons aggregation for products or services, daily deal coupons, daily deal coupons aggregation, location-based geo-targeted or geo-tagged advertisements, location-based promotions, location-based offers, location-based coupons, promotions or offers or daily-deal coupons or daily deal coupons aggregation in connection with an online or mobile news feed, location-based advertising, location-based deals and offers, position-based services, ad links, location-based promotions, location-based offers, location-based coupons, promotions or offers or daily deal coupons or daily deal coupons aggregation in connection with an online or mobile news feed, discount ad impressions, merchant ad impressions, email coupon impressions, online coupons, position-based services, ad links, location-based promotions, location-based offers, location-based coupons, promotions or offers or daily deal coupons or daily deal coupons aggregation in connection with an online or mobile news feed, location-based advertising, mobile location-based advertising, geo-targeted or geo-tagged advertisements, processing, analyzing and filtering impressions based upon people, places and things, content, audience, geographical area, delivery modes, data sets and ad markers;

distribution of location-based promotions, location-based offers, location-based coupons, promotions or offers or daily deal coupons or daily deal coupons aggregation in connection with an online or mobile news feed, position-based services, advertisements or mobile coupons, mobile grocery coupons, mobile social networking impressions, location-based mobile ads, mobile ad network, mobile advertising for mobile publishers and advertisers and mobile commerce, mobile location-based advertising and promotions or offers or daily deal coupons or daily deal coupons aggregation associated with location or maps in a social network or website online or mobile device, location-based mobile coupons, targeted mobile ad impressions, mobile user'"'"'s location, location-based deals and offers, coupon alerts, searched promotions or offers or daily deal coupons or daily deal coupons aggregation, daily deal coupons, daily deal coupons aggregation shared promotions or offers or daily deal coupons or daily deal coupons aggregation, last minute deals, free or discounted printable coupons, business directories, SMS marketing.