Generic message injection system

• US 9,779,424 B1
• Filed: 03/15/2013
• Issued: 10/03/2017
• Est. Priority Date: 03/15/2013
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Groupon Incorporated
• Original Assignee: Groupon Incorporated
• Inventors: Kakarlapudi, Geetha, Sharma, Kannan Nitin, Gupta, Mohit, Sinharoy, Avik, Trimble, Christopher S., Gudla, Vinesh, Boyd, Ryan Duane
• Primary Examiner(s): Cao, Vincent
• Application Number:
  US13/842,449
• Time in Patent Office: 1,663 Days
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0271 Personalized advertisement
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0276 Advertisement creation

Abstract

Systems and related methods providing for dynamic message creation are discussed herein. Circuitry may be configured receive generic configuration data that references work chunks for message generation and time data indicating a message send time. The work chunks may include references to message data, but not the actual message data. Based on the time data, the work chunks may be placed in a message queue. Circuitry may also be configured to retrieve a work chunk from the message queue and to generate one or more messages based on the retrieved work chunk. The references to message data in the work chunk may be used to retrieve the message data at the time of message generation.

Claims

1. A computer-implemented method for improving electronic message generation and transmission efficiency, the method comprising:

receiving generic configuration data by a master module of a messaging system, wherein the generic configuration data is configured to facilitate transmission of a plurality of electronic messages, and wherein the generic configuration data include

a data path,

time data, and

channel data for the plurality of electronic messages;

retrieving, using the generic configuration data and by the master module, work chunks using the data path, wherein each of the work chunks describes at least one automatic message generation task, and includes at least one content data path pointing to message data stored in a message content repository;

placing, by the master module, the work chunks in a message queue based on the time data, wherein the time data indicates time for the at least one automatic message generation task;

retrieving, by worker modules, the work chunks from the message queue;

generating a first electronic message described by a first automatic message generation task in a first work chunk of the work chunks, wherein generating the first electronic message includes;

accessing first message data from the message content repository referenced by a first content data path of the first work chunk, wherein the first message data includes first content data and first recipient data;

generating the first electronic message based on the first message data; and

customizing the first electronic message using the first recipient data, wherein the first recipient data includes first consumer identify data and first recipient channel address data;

sending the first electronic message based on a channel and a message type described by the channel data; and

updating the first electronic message after the sending of the first electronic message, wherein an update schedule indicates time for updating the first electronic message, wherein updating the first electronic message includes;

receiving an update indication;

accessing the first message data from the message content repository referenced by the first content data path, wherein the first content data path is dynamically generated based on at least one of the time data and the update schedule; and

updating the first message data based on the update indication.

2. The computer-implemented method of claim 1, wherein the generic configuration data further includes a template path pointing to template data for the plurality of electronic messages, wherein placing the work chunks in the message queue based on the time data includes placing the template path in the message queue based on the time data, wherein the first electronic message includes at least a portion of the first message data formatted as specified by first template data, the first template data being retrieved based on a first template path of the first work chunk retrieved from the message queue.

3. The computer-implemented method of claim 1, wherein:

sending the first electronic message based on the channel includes sending the first electronic message to a recipient based on the first recipient data.

4. The computer-implemented method of claim 1, wherein the message data indicates a promotional offer of a merchant.

5. The computer-implemented method of claim 1, wherein the channel is selected from the group consisting of email, social network message, mobile application, and short message service (SMS) text.

6. The computer-implemented method of claim 1, wherein the time data indicates a daily, weekly, or monthly message send time.

7. The computer-implemented method of claim 1 further comprising, by the master module:

monitoring a configuration file repository including a plurality of generic configuration files, each generic configuration file including a set of generic configuration data; and

placing the work chunks in the message queue in an order indicated by time data in each of the plurality of generic configuration files.

8. The computer-implemented method of claim 1 further comprising, by the master module:

generating master log data after placing the work chunks in the message queue; and

comparing the master log data with expected master log data to determine whether the work chunks were successfully placed in the message queue.

9. The computer-implemented method of claim 1 further comprising:

generating worker log data after generating the first electronic message; and

comparing the worker log data with expected worker log data to determine whether the electronic message was successfully generated.

10. The computer-implemented method of claim 1, further comprising:

processing by the worker modules, the work chunks retrieved from the message queue in parallel.

11. An apparatus for improving electronic message generation and transmission efficiency, comprising at least one processor and at least one non-transitory computer-readable medium storing computer-readable program instructions, the at least one non-transitory computer-readable medium and the computer-readable program instructions are configured to, with the at least one processor, cause the apparatus to:

receive generic configuration data by a master module, wherein the generic configuration data is configured to facilitate transmission of a plurality of electronic messages; and

wherein the generic configuration data include

a data path,

time data, and

channel data for the plurality of electronic messages;

retrieve, using the generic configuration data and by the master module, work chunks using the data path, wherein each of the work chunks describes at least one automatic message generation task, and includes at least one content data path pointing to message data stored in a message content repository;

place, by the master module, the work chunks in a message queue based on the time data, wherein the time data indicates time for the at least one automatic message generation task;

retrieve, by worker modules, the work chunks from the message queue;

generate a first electronic message described by a first automatic message generation task in a first work chunk of the work chunks based on;

accessing first message data from the message content repository referenced by a first content data path of the first work chunk, wherein the first message data includes first content data and first recipient data;

generating the first electronic message based on the first message data;

customizing the first electronic message using the first recipient data, wherein the first recipient data includes first consumer identify data and first recipient channel address data;

send the first electronic message based on a channel and a message type described by the channel data; and

update the first electronic message after the sending of the first electronic message, wherein an update schedule indicates time for updating the first electronic message, wherein updating the first electronic message includes;

receiving an update indication;

accessing the first message data from the message content repository referenced by the first content data path, wherein the first content data path is dynamically generated based on at least one of the time data and the update schedule; and

updating the first message data based on the update indication.

12. The apparatus of claim 11, wherein the generic configuration data further includes a template path pointing to template data for the plurality of electronic messages, wherein placing, by the master module, the work chunks in the message queue based on the time data includes placing, by the master module, the template path in the message queue based on the time data, wherein the first electronic message includes at least a portion of the first message data formatted as specified by first template data, the first template data being retrieved from the message content repository based on a first template path of the first work chunk retrieved from the message queue.

13. The apparatus of claim 11, sending the first electronic message based on the channel includes sending the first electronic message to a recipient based on the first recipient data.

14. The apparatus of claim 11, wherein the message data indicates a promotional offer of a merchant.

15. The apparatus of claim 11, wherein the channel is selected from the group consisting of email, social network message, mobile application, and short message service (SMS) text.

16. The apparatus of claim 11, wherein the time data indicates a daily, weekly, or monthly message send time.

17. The apparatus of claim 11, wherein the at least one non-transitory computer-readable medium and the computer-readable program instructions being further configured to, with the at least one processor, cause the apparatus to:

monitor a configuration file repository including a plurality of generic configuration files, each generic configuration file including a set of generic configuration data; and

place the work chunks in the message queue in an order indicated by time data in each of the plurality of generic configuration files.

18. The apparatus of claim 11, wherein the at least one non-transitory computer-readable medium and the computer-readable program instructions being further configured to, with the at least one processor, cause the apparatus to:

generate master log data after placing the work chunks in the message queue; and

compare the master log data with expected master log data to determine whether the work chunks were successfully placed in the message queue.

19. The apparatus of claim 11, wherein the at least one non-transitory computer-readable medium and the computer-readable program instructions being further configured to, with the at least one processor, cause the apparatus to:

generating worker log data after generating the first electronic message; and

comparing the worker log data with expected worker log data to determine whether the electronic message was successfully generated.

20. The apparatus of claim 11, wherein the at least one non-transitory computer-readable medium and the computer-readable program instructions being further configured to, with the at least one processor, cause the apparatus to process the work chunks retrieved from the message queue in parallel.