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

Claim 7:
8. A computer-implemented method of facilitating a payment by a networked device, comprising:
receiving consumer identifying data from a consumer device;
generating 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;
associating promotional data with the consumer identifying data, wherein the promotional data is also associated with a merchant;
sending 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;

receiving the anonymous identifying data from a merchant device, wherein the merchant device is associated with the merchant;
validating the anonymous identifying data received from the merchant device with the mathematical relationship and the private key;
sending the consumer identifying data to the merchant device after validating the anonymous identifying data; and
sending the promotional data.