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System and method for providing coupon-less discounts based on a user broadcasted message

  • US 9,576,294 B2
  • Filed: 05/10/2012
  • Issued: 02/21/2017
  • Est. Priority Date: 07/18/2006
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A method, comprising:

  • linking, by a computer based system, a transaction account of a user with a first third party broadcast platform and a second third party broadcast platform,wherein the transaction account of the user is associated with first profile information for the first third party broadcast platform and second profile information for the second third party broadcast platform;

    receiving, by a broadcast monitoring module of the computer based system residing with a broadcast channel, a first set of broadcasts from the first third party broadcast platform;

    identifying, by the broadcast monitoring module of the computer based system and based on the offer indicator, a first subset of broadcasts from the first set of broadcasts;

    wherein a broadcast in the first subset of broadcasts comprises the offer indicator,wherein the offer indicator is associated with an offer,wherein the offer indicator is associated with offer information that defines the offer,wherein the offer is converted to be configured for use in the broadcast, andreceiving, by the broadcast monitoring module of the computer based system, a second set of broadcasts from the second third party broadcast platform;

    identifying, by the broadcast monitoring module of the computer based system and based on the offer indicator, a second subset of broadcasts from the second set of broadcasts;

    wherein a broadcast in the second subset of broadcasts comprises the offer indicator,parsing each broadcast of at least one of the first set of broadcasts or the second set of broadcasts, by the computer based system, to identify the offer indicator and a source of the broadcast;

    correlating, by the computer based system and in response to the identifying the offer indicator and based on the associating the transaction account of the user and at least one of the first profile information or second profile information, the offer with the transaction account of the user and the source of the broadcast, wherein the user is the source of the broadcast;

    associating, by the computer based system, the offer defined by the offer indicator to the transaction account of the user in response to the correlating;

    generating, by the computer based system, notification instructions,wherein the notification instructions are provided to at least one of the first third party broadcast platform or the second third party broadcast platform, andwherein the at least one of the first third party broadcast platform or the second third party broadcast platform transmits a notification of the offer and the offer based on the notification instructions to the user in the at least one of the first third party broadcast platform or the second third party broadcast platform;

    receiving, by the computer based system, transaction information associated with the transaction account of the user;

    comparing, by the computer based system, the offer to the transaction information; and

    crediting, by the computer based system, an amount associated with the offer to the transaction account of the user based on the broadcast, in response to the transaction information satisfying the offer information.

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