US 12,271,927 B2
Consumer presence based deal offers
Tuomas Artman, San Francisco, CA (US); Jyri Engestrom, San Francisco, CA (US); and Ulf Schwekendiek, San Francisco, CA (US)
Assigned to Bytedance Inc., Wilmington, DE (US)
Filed by Bytedance Inc., Wilmington, DE (US)
Filed on Mar. 6, 2024, as Appl. No. 18/597,426.
Application 18/597,426 is a continuation of application No. 17/303,101, filed on May 20, 2021, granted, now 11,954,707.
Application 17/303,101 is a continuation of application No. 16/264,177, filed on Jan. 31, 2019, granted, now 11,062,354, issued on Jul. 13, 2021.
Application 16/264,177 is a continuation of application No. 13/801,610, filed on Mar. 13, 2013, granted, now 10,235,692, issued on Mar. 19, 2019.
Claims priority of provisional application 61/715,230, filed on Oct. 17, 2012.
Prior Publication US 2024/0289843 A1, Aug. 29, 2024
Int. Cl. G06Q 30/02 (2023.01); G06Q 20/32 (2012.01); G06Q 20/36 (2012.01); G06Q 20/38 (2012.01); G06Q 30/0251 (2023.01)
CPC G06Q 30/0261 (2013.01) [G06Q 20/3278 (2013.01); G06Q 20/36 (2013.01); G06Q 20/382 (2013.01); G06Q 20/387 (2013.01)] 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A networked device comprising processing circuitry configured to:
receive consumer identifying data from a consumer device;
generate anonymous identifying data associated with the consumer identifying data and a private key, wherein the anonymous identifying data and the private key have a mathematical relationship;
send the anonymous identifying data to the consumer device, wherein the anonymous identifying data is sent to a merchant device by the consumer device via a personal area network without action of the networked device, and the merchant device is associated with a merchant;
receive the anonymous identifying data from the merchant device indicating presence of the consumer device at a merchant location associated with the merchant device;
validate the anonymous identifying data received from the merchant device with the mathematical relationship and the private key;
query a promotional database to identify promotional data associated with presence of the consumer device at the merchant location from other promotional data; and
cause transmission of the promotional data associated with presence of the consumer device at the merchant location.