Method, apparatus, and computer program product for forecasting demand

    公开(公告)号:US10657567B2

    公开(公告)日:2020-05-19

    申请号:US15953635

    申请日:2018-04-16

    Applicant: Groupon, Inc.

    Abstract: Provided herein are systems, methods and computer readable media for forecasting demand. An example method comprises generating a virtual offer for one or more combinations of a category or sub-category, location, and price range, accessing consumer data comprising one or more users and user data related to each of the one or more users, calculating a probability that a particular user would buy a particular offer in a particular time frame for at least a portion of the plurality of users and for each of the virtual offers, and determining an estimated number of units of to be sold for at least a portion of the one or more virtual offers as a function of at least the probability associated with each of the one or more virtual offers.

    Automated deal guide user interface

    公开(公告)号:US10229432B1

    公开(公告)日:2019-03-12

    申请号:US14038641

    申请日:2013-09-26

    Applicant: Groupon, Inc.

    Abstract: A method, apparatus, and computer program product are disclosed for generating a promotion structure. The method includes receiving an indication of a service offered by a merchant and presenting one or more tiles based on one or more promotion option structures, wherein each tile includes at least one option and a descriptor associated with each included option. The method further includes receiving one or more selections, and generating, by a processor, the promotion structure based on the received one or more selections. A corresponding apparatus and computer program product are also provided.

    Method, apparatus, and computer program product for forecasting demand

    公开(公告)号:US09947022B1

    公开(公告)日:2018-04-17

    申请号:US13826333

    申请日:2013-03-14

    Applicant: Groupon, Inc.

    CPC classification number: G06Q30/0202

    Abstract: Provided herein are systems, methods and computer readable media for forecasting demand. An example method comprises generating a virtual offer for one or more combinations of a category or sub-category, location, and price range, accessing consumer data comprising one or more users and user data related to each of the one or more users, calculating a probability that a particular user would buy a particular offer in a particular time frame for at least a portion of the plurality of users and for each of the virtual offers, and determining an estimated number of units of to be sold for at least a portion of the one or more virtual offers as a function of at least the probability associated with each of the one or more virtual offers.

    METHOD, APPARATUS, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT FOR FORECASTING DEMAND

    公开(公告)号:US20180365716A1

    公开(公告)日:2018-12-20

    申请号:US15953635

    申请日:2018-04-16

    Applicant: Groupon, Inc.

    Abstract: Provided herein are systems, methods and computer readable media for forecasting demand. An example method comprises generating a virtual offer for one or more combinations of a category or sub-category, location, and price range, accessing consumer data comprising one or more users and user data related to each of the one or more users, calculating a probability that a particular user would buy a particular offer in a particular time frame for at least a portion of the plurality of users and for each of the virtual offers, and determining an estimated number of units of to be sold for at least a portion of the one or more virtual offers as a function of at least the probability associated with each of the one or more virtual offers.

    METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR IDENTIFYING TRENDING PROMOTIONS

    公开(公告)号:US20220391935A1

    公开(公告)日:2022-12-08

    申请号:US17842572

    申请日:2022-06-16

    Applicant: Groupon, Inc.

    Abstract: A method, apparatus and computer program product are provided for generation of analytic data. An example embodiment includes a method for identifying trending items based on electronically generated velocity metrics derived from transaction data. The method includes performing at least one electronic transaction between a consumer and the promotion and marketing service to offer, via the electronic transaction, at least one promotion to the consumer, storing a set of transaction data in a memory, the set of transaction data comprising electronic data indicating the at least one transaction, determining, via processing circuitry, one or more velocity metrics for a plurality of promotions from the set of transaction data, determining at least one trending promotion from the plurality of promotions based on the velocity metrics, generating, via the processing circuitry, an electronic communication comprising the at least one trending promotion, and transmitting, via communications circuitry, the electronic communication.

    Automated deal guide optimization

    公开(公告)号:US10475063B1

    公开(公告)日:2019-11-12

    申请号:US14038610

    申请日:2013-09-26

    Applicant: Groupon, Inc.

    Abstract: A method, apparatus, and computer program product are disclosed to score elements of a structure database. The method includes accessing a structure database comprising one or more promotion options, one or more promotion option structures, and one or more promotion structures, wherein each promotion structure comprises one or more of the promotion option structures, each promotion option structure corresponds to one or more of the promotion options, and each promotion option is associated with at least one service. The method further includes generating a promotion option score for each promotion option in the structure database, generating, by a processor, a promotion option structure score for each promotion option structure in the structure database, and generating a promotion structure score for each promotion structure in the structure database. A corresponding apparatus and computer program product are also provided.

    Method, apparatus, and computer program product for forecasting demand

    公开(公告)号:US11379891B2

    公开(公告)日:2022-07-05

    申请号:US16855778

    申请日:2020-04-22

    Applicant: Groupon, Inc.

    Abstract: Provided herein are systems, methods and computer readable media for forecasting demand. An example method comprises generating a virtual offer for one or more combinations of a category or sub-category, location, and price range, accessing consumer data comprising one or more users and user data related to each of the one or more users, calculating a probability that a particular user would buy a particular offer in a particular time frame for at least a portion of the plurality of users and for each of the virtual offers, and determining an estimated number of units of to be sold for at least a portion of the one or more virtual offers as a function of at least the probability associated with each of the one or more virtual offers.

    Method, apparatus, and computer program product for identification of supply sources

    公开(公告)号:US10915843B1

    公开(公告)日:2021-02-09

    申请号:US13805000

    申请日:2013-03-14

    Applicant: Groupon, Inc.

    Abstract: Provided herein are systems, methods and computer readable media for identifying supply. An example for identifying merchants for fulfilling demand comprises receiving one or more virtual offers and an associated quantity of at least a portion of the one or more virtual offers, wherein the one or more virtual offers are representative of a residual demand for a geographic area, assigning a virtual offer of the one or more of the virtual offers to one or more merchants in an instance in which a supply source of the one or more merchants is identified as able to supply at least a portion of the associated quantity of the virtual offer, and determining a priority score for the one or more merchants, wherein the one or more merchants are rankable based on the priority score.

    Automated deal guide structure identification

    公开(公告)号:US10475083B1

    公开(公告)日:2019-11-12

    申请号:US14038629

    申请日:2013-09-26

    Applicant: Groupon, Inc.

    Abstract: A method, apparatus, and computer program product are disclosed for updating a structure database. The method includes accessing a corpus of machine readable text generated based on a plurality of promotions, wherein each of the plurality of promotions comprises at least one promotion option associated with at least one service, and extracting features from the promotion options, the features being mapped to services associated with respective promotion options from which the features are extracted. The method further includes identifying one or more components associated with the extracted features, tagging, using a processor, each promotion option with every component associated with at least one feature of the promotion option, and updating a structure database using the tagged promotion options. A corresponding apparatus and computer program product are also provided.

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