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Retail proximity marketing

  • US 10,360,593 B2
  • Filed: 03/15/2013
  • Issued: 07/23/2019
  • Est. Priority Date: 04/24/2012
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A method of delivering marketing information to customers based on their proximity to a marketing location, comprising:

  • receiving in a server a sighting message that includes;

    a rolling identifier of a wireless identity transmitter associated with an individual, wherein the rolling identifier is periodically generated by the wireless identity transmitter at a predetermined interval;

    an encoded counter value generated based at least in part on a counter value used to generate the rolling identifier;

    identification information corresponding to a proximity broadcast receiver that transmitted the sighting message; and

    authentication information of the proximity broadcast receiver that transmitted the sighting message;

    determining, in the server, whether the wireless identity transmitter is known based at least in part on the rolling identifier and the encoded counter value;

    determining, in the server, whether the sighting message is related to a host based at least in part on the identification information;

    determining, in the server, whether the authentication information included in the sighting message matches authentication information stored in the server;

    identifying, in response to determining that the authentication information included in the sighting message matches the authentication information stored in the server, marketing information relevant to the wireless identity transmitter and a proximate marketing area when the wireless identity transmitter is known based at least in part on the rolling identifier and the encoded counter value and the sighting message is related to the host based at least in part on the identification information, wherein the identification comprises a look-up operation in a database relating the marketing information, the proximate marketing area, and stored data related to the individual, and wherein the marketing information is one of a current offer, a promotional offer, a greeting message, information about deals in the proximate marketing area, an advertisement, and an executable script; and

    transmitting a first message to a computing device that includes the marketing information relevant to the wireless identity transmitter and the proximate marketing area.

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