Patent ID: 11954707
Assignee: GROUPON, INC.
Field: IT methods for management (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC G | IPC G

Claim 0:
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;
associate promotional data with the consumer identifying data, wherein the promotional data is also associated with a merchant;
send the anonymous identifying data to the consumer device, wherein:
the anonymous identifying data is sent to a merchant device by the consumer device without action of the networked device, and
the merchant device is associated with the merchant;

receive the anonymous identifying data from the merchant device;
validate the anonymous identifying data received from the merchant device with the mathematical relationship and the private key;
send the consumer identifying data to the merchant device after validating the anonymous identifying data; and
send the promotional data.