Unlocking coupon offers
First Claim
1. A method comprising:
- receiving, by a server computer, an indication of selection of social network data by a user of a client device, wherein the social network data is associated with a social network provider that maintains a social graph, and wherein the social network data, upon selection, indicates approval of a coupon offer by the user, and wherein the social network data is displayed on the client device concurrently with offer data that indicates the coupon offer and does not include a coupon;
wherein prior to receiving the indication, the user does not have permission to access the coupon; and
in response to receiving the indication, the server computer causing;
providing the coupon to the user;
sending, using an application program interface (API) of the social network provider, a link message that causes a user node that is associated with the user to be linked, within the social graph, with a coupon node that is associated with the coupon offer; and
sending, by one or more computers, a message to a subset of a set of other users identified, in the social graph that the social network provider maintains, as connected to the user,wherein the message includes data associated with the coupon offer.
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Abstract
In an embodiment, a method comprises receiving an indication that a user selected social network data that is displayed, on a client device, concurrently with offer data that indicates a coupon offer; wherein prior to receiving the indication, the user of the client device is incapable of accessing the coupon offer; in response to receiving the indication that the user selected the social network data, allowing the user to access the coupon offer, and causing a message to be sent to each user of a plurality of users that are identified, in a social network, as connected to the user, wherein the message includes data about the coupon offer or a coupon provider that initiated the coupon offer; wherein the method is performed by one or more computing devices.
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20 Claims
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1. A method comprising:
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receiving, by a server computer, an indication of selection of social network data by a user of a client device, wherein the social network data is associated with a social network provider that maintains a social graph, and wherein the social network data, upon selection, indicates approval of a coupon offer by the user, and wherein the social network data is displayed on the client device concurrently with offer data that indicates the coupon offer and does not include a coupon; wherein prior to receiving the indication, the user does not have permission to access the coupon; and in response to receiving the indication, the server computer causing; providing the coupon to the user; sending, using an application program interface (API) of the social network provider, a link message that causes a user node that is associated with the user to be linked, within the social graph, with a coupon node that is associated with the coupon offer; and sending, by one or more computers, a message to a subset of a set of other users identified, in the social graph that the social network provider maintains, as connected to the user, wherein the message includes data associated with the coupon offer. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12)
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13. A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium storing one or more programs for execution by one or more processors of a respective server system, the one or more programs comprising instructions for:
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receiving an indication of selection of social network data by a user of a client device, wherein the social network data is associated with a social network provider that maintains a social graph, and wherein the social network data, upon selection, indicates approval of a coupon offer by the user, and wherein the social network data is displayed on the client device, concurrently with offer data that indicates the coupon offer and does not include a coupon; wherein prior to receiving the indication, the user does not have permission to access the coupon; and in response to receiving the indication; providing the coupon to the user; sending, using an application program interface (API) of the social network provider, a link message that causes a user node that is associated with the user to be linked, within the social graph, with a coupon node that is associated with the coupon offer; and causing, by one or more computers, a message to be sent to a subset of a set of other users identified, in the social graph that the social network provider maintains, as connected to the user, wherein the message includes data associated with the coupon offer. - View Dependent Claims (14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20)
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