Dynamic Offer Redemption System for Campaign Alignment

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Solution Overview

Problem

Conventional campaign driven offer distribution systems fail to ensure that campaign goals are met, as they do not effectively align merchant offers with campaign objectives, leading to inefficient use of incentives.

Innovation Solution

A system provider determines offer conditions associated with campaign actions, configuring offers as initially irredeemable and making them redeemable upon customer participation, thereby aligning offer goals with campaign objectives and optimizing offer distribution.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Ease of operation

If merchant offers are distributed together with campaign materials, then customer engagement is incentivized, but campaign goals are not guaranteed to be met

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvecustomer engagementVSAvoidcampaign goal achievement
Core Design Contradiction:
Ease of operationVSReliability

Solution Approach 1:

The offer redemption status is made dynamic rather than static. Offers transition from irredeemable to redeemable state based on campaign participation conditions, allowing the system to adapt offer availability in real-time based on campaign performance and customer actions.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #15Dynamics

Solution Approach 2:

The system changes the redemption parameter of offers based on campaign conditions. By modifying the redeemability parameter from false to true when campaign actions are completed, the system ensures campaign goals are met while maintaining customer engagement incentives.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #35Parameter changes

2Ease of operation

If offers are made redeemable immediately, then customer satisfaction increases, but campaign objectives may not be achieved

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvecustomer satisfactionVSAvoidcampaign objective achievement
Core Design Contradiction:
Ease of operationVSReliability

Solution Approach 1:

Offers are prepared and configured in advance with conditional redemption logic embedded. The system pre-establishes the connection between campaign actions and offer redeemability, so that when customers complete campaign tasks, the offers automatically become redeemable without manual intervention.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #10Preliminary action

Solution Approach 2:

The system implements feedback loops where customer participation in campaign actions triggers automatic updates to offer redemption status. This feedback mechanism ensures that offer availability is directly tied to campaign performance, aligning customer satisfaction with campaign objectives.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #23Feedback

3Reliability

If offers are configured as irredeemable, then campaign control is improved, but customer incentive effectiveness decreases

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvecampaign controlVSAvoidoffer incentive effectiveness
Core Design Contradiction:
ReliabilityVSProductivity

Solution Approach 1:

The offer system transitions from a static irredeemable state to a dynamic state where redeemability changes based on campaign participation. This dynamic approach maintains campaign control while progressively unlocking incentive effectiveness as customers complete desired actions.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #15Dynamics

Solution Approach 2:

Offers are released in periodic fashion based on campaign milestones and customer actions. Rather than being immediately available or never available, offers become redeemable at specific intervals or triggers, maintaining control while building incentive effectiveness over time.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #19Periodic action

Data Source

PatentUS12020273B2Campaign driven offer distribution system
Publication Date: 2024.06.25 PAYPAL INC
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AI summary

Systems and methods for providing campaign driven offer distribution include receiving, from a service provider device associated with a service provider, first campaign information for a first campaign. A first offer that has been configured to be irredeemable by the first customer and that includes a first offer condition associated with the first campaign information that must be satisfied to reconfigure the first offer to be redeemable by the first customer is provided for display on a first customer device. A notification indicating the first offer condition has been satisfied is received. In response to receiving the notification indicating the first offer condition has been satisfied, the first offer is reconfigured to be redeemable by the first customer. A notification indicating a status change with the first offer that causes the first offer to be displayed on the first customer device is communicated to the first customer device.