Mobile Marketing

• US 20110184795A1
• Filed: 01/20/2011
• Published: 07/28/2011
• Est. Priority Date: 01/22/2010
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: William Tesch
• Original Assignee: William Tesch
• Inventors: Tesch, William
• Application Number:
  US13/010,356
• Publication Number:
  US 20110184795A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 705/14.16
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/02 Marketing; Price estimation or determination; Fundraising
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0214 Referral reward systems
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 50/01 Social networking

Abstract

A method for mobile marketing includes, with a mobile computing device, requesting an electronic benefit an entity associated with a mobile marketing system, receiving a first electronic benefit from the entity in response to the request, and receiving a second electronic benefit in response to sharing the first benefit.

Claims

1. A method for mobile marketing, the method comprising:

with a mobile computing device, requesting an electronic benefit from an entity associated with a mobile marketing system;

with said mobile computing device, receiving a first electronic benefit from said entity in response to said request; and

with said mobile computing device, receiving a second electronic benefit in response to sharing said first benefit.

2. The method of claim 1, further comprising, with said mobile computing system;

displaying to a user;

a number of entity'"'"'s within a specified geographic area, said entity'"'"'s associated with said mobile marketing system.

3. The method of claim 1, further comprising confirming that said mobile computing device is within a distance of said physical location by using a locator mechanism associated with said mobile computing device.

4. The method of claim 3, wherein said locator mechanism comprises at least one of a Global Positioning System (GPS) and a tower triangulation method.

5. The method of claim 1, wherein sharing said first benefit comprises, with said mobile computing system, forwarding a copy of said benefit to at least one other computing device.

6. The method of claim 5, wherein forwarding said copy of said benefit is done through at least one of:

an email, a text message, and an electronic message associated with a mobile marketing system.

7. The method of claim 5, wherein forwarding said copy of said benefit is done through an interface to a social networking application.

8. The method of claim 1, wherein said benefit comprises a discount on a good offered by said entity.

9. The method of claim 1, wherein said benefit comprises a reward point towards a good offered by said entity.

10. The method of claim 1, further comprising, with said mobile computing device:

sending a request to a server system, said server system storing information related to physical locations associated with additional entities within a distance from said mobile computing device, said additional entities having access to said server system; and

receiving an offer from one of said additional entities.

11. A computing device comprising:

a processor; and

a memory communicatively coupled to said processor;

in which said processor is configured to;

request an electronic benefit from an entity associated with a mobile marketing system;

receive a first electronic benefit from said entity in response to said request; and

receive a second electronic benefit in response to sharing said first electronic benefit.

12. The method of claim 11, wherein said processor is further configured to displaying to a user, a number of entities within a specified geographic area, said entity'"'"'s associated with said mobile marketing system.

13. The method of claim 12, wherein said processor is further configured to confirm that said mobile computing device is within said distance of said physical location by using a locator mechanism associated with said mobile computing device.

14. The method of claim 13, wherein said locator mechanism comprises at least one of a Global Positioning System (GPS) and a tower triangulation system.

15. The method of claim 11, wherein to share said first benefit, said processor is further configured to forward a copy of said benefit to at least one other computing device.

16. The method of claim 15, wherein to forward said copy of said benefit is done through at least one of:

an email, a text message and an electronic message associated with a mobile marketing system.

17. The method of claim 15, wherein to forward said copy of said benefit is done through an interface to a social networking application.

18. The method of claim 11, wherein said benefit comprises a discount on a good offered by said entity.

19. The method of claim 11, wherein said benefit comprises a reward point towards a good offered by said entity.

20. A method for incentivizing mobile marketing, the method comprising:

with said mobile computing device, requesting a first electronic benefit from an entity within a specified geographic range, said entity being associated with a mobile marketing system;

with said mobile computing device, receiving a first electronic benefit;

with said mobile computing device, forwarding a copy of said first electronic benefit to an alternate computing device;

with said mobile computing device, reporting said forwarding to said entity; and

with said mobile computing device, receiving a second electronic benefit from said entity in response to said reporting.