Methods and systems for coupon service applications

摘要

A coupon service application operated on multiple platforms, including mobile devices, PC/Internet and display screens on home appliances. The application maintains a home inventory defining the consumable products within a user's home and a shopping list defining the consumable products the user wishes to purchase, and compares the home inventory and shopping list against a database of available coupons. Users can share and save coupons, use coupons for online purchases, check their home inventory while away from home, monitor the price of certain products and compare the price against an average price and track historical savings. The application maintains a recipe bank, suggests recipes based on the home inventory, and enables users to select recipes, adding ingredients therefrom to the shopping list, all while identifying coupons for items on the shopping list and the home inventory. Users can input a budget, and tracks spending against the budget.

主权项

1. A non-transitory computer-readable medium having stored thereon computer executable instructions which, when executed by a processing device, perform steps for identifying coupons, comprising:
monitoring a refrigerator via a device manager, wherein the device manager provides user access to a first list that includes grocery items inside the refrigerator, wherein the device manager receives status information concerning the grocery items inside the refrigerator, wherein the status information includes information relating to a quantity of one or more grocery items inside the refrigerator; receiving a first user input defining a particular grocery item; generating a shopping list based on the first list, the received first user input, and the status information; comparing the shopping list against a coupon database; identifying one or more available coupons for the first product; outputting the identified one or more available coupons via a graphic display; receiving a second user input defining a strike price; monitoring the price of the particular grocery item; and providing an alert when the price of the particular grocery item equals or falls below the strike price.