Patent application number | Description | Published |
20110153424 | Voter directed context-sensitive sponsorship of online content and services - A method and system of voting and polling that utilizes content and context awareness of articles or blog posts published to deliver a revenue opportunity via context sensitive ad units based on article content, user revealed and implicit preferences, voting history, and other user opted in behavior. | 06-23-2011 |
20110173534 | Notification system for increasing user engagement - A content and context aware method and system taking one or more of multiple inputs based on user behavior, user context, content access times, content access frequency, or other settings and preferences to present one or more of multiple triggers to notify user of suggested actions or motivate users to take one or more suggested actions. | 07-14-2011 |
20120209668 | DYNAMICALLY SERVING CONTENT TO SOCIAL NETWORK MEMBERS - From a third-party process within a social network having a platform policy, a graph of a social network member is queried. The results of the query are passed to a matching process, without violating the platform policy. Content is requested from the process. In response to passing the results, a description of content is received. The content is caused to be made available to the social network member. | 08-16-2012 |
20120209908 | DYNAMICALLY SERVING CONTENT TO SOCIAL NETWORK MEMBERS - From outside a social network having a platform policy, causing a third-party program within the social network to query a social graph of a social network member. The results of the query are accessed without violating the platform policy. Based on the results, content is identified to serve to the social network member. The third-party program within the social network is caused to make the content available to the social network member. | 08-16-2012 |
20140122192 | SELECTING PAYMENT PLATFORMS FOR ONLINE-TO-OFFLINE TRANSACTIONS - Systems and methods are disclosed for providing online offers for rewards that can be tracked to offline transactions for redemption. In order to protect sensitive consumer information, payment processing details such as credit card numbers and other authorizing data are redirected through a secure network to payment processing platforms, and then tokenized for subsequent use in relatively less secure data network communications and transactions. After a secure payment processing platform has authorized a transaction such as a reward for purchases, the payment processing platform can detect qualifying retail activity and generate corresponding rewards, which may be signaled to the customer through any suitable communications medium. | 05-01-2014 |
20140122196 | SECURE VAULT FOR ONLINE-TO-OFFLINE TRANSACTIONS - Systems and methods are disclosed for providing online offers for rewards that can be tracked to offline transactions for redemption. In order to protect sensitive consumer information, payment processing details such as credit card numbers and other authorizing data are redirected through a secure network to payment processing platforms, and then tokenized for subsequent use in relatively less secure data network communications and transactions. After a secure payment processing platform has authorized a transaction such as a reward for purchases, the payment processing platform can detect qualifying retail activity and generate corresponding rewards, which may be signaled to the customer through any suitable communications medium. | 05-01-2014 |
20140122197 | TRACKING REDEMPTION OF ONLINE-TO-OFFLINE TRANSACTIONS - Systems and methods are disclosed for providing online offers for rewards that can be tracked to offline transactions for redemption. In order to protect sensitive consumer information, payment processing details such as credit card numbers and other authorizing data are redirected through a secure network to payment processing platforms, and then tokenized for subsequent use in relatively less secure data network communications and transactions. After a secure payment processing platform has authorized a transaction such as a reward for purchases, the payment processing platform can detect qualifying retail activity and generate corresponding rewards, which may be signaled to the customer through any suitable communications medium. | 05-01-2014 |
20140122198 | AFFILIATE NETWORK TRACKING FOR ONLINE-TO-OFFLINE TRANSACTIONS - Systems and methods are disclosed for providing online offers for rewards that can be tracked to offline transactions for redemption. In order to protect sensitive consumer information, payment processing details such as credit card numbers and other authorizing data are redirected through a secure network to payment processing platforms, and then tokenized for subsequent use in relatively less secure data network communications and transactions. After a secure payment processing platform has authorized a transaction such as a reward for purchases, the payment processing platform can detect qualifying retail activity and generate corresponding rewards, which may be signaled to the customer through any suitable communications medium. | 05-01-2014 |