Patent ID: 8768761
Filing Date: 2014-07-01
Classification: G06Q

Abstract:
1. A method comprising: receiving an indication that a user has selected social network data that is associated with a social network provider that maintains a social graph, that, when selected, indicates approval of a coupon offer by the user, and that is displayed, on a client device, concurrently with offer data that indicates the coupon offer and does not include a coupon; wherein prior to receiving the indication, the user of the client device is incapable of accessing the coupon; in response to receiving the indication that the user selected the social network data: providing the coupon to the user; causing, by one or more computers, a message to be sent to each other user of a plurality of other users that are identified, in the social graph that the social network provider maintains, as connected to the user, wherein the message includes data about the coupon offer.