System, method, apparatus and computer readable medium for secure one-time printing of coupons

摘要

Technologies are provided in embodiments to enable secure one-time printing for electronic coupons. The embodiments are configured to provide, for display on a display screen of a user device, one or more coupon offers, to receive information indicating at least one offer is selected by a user, to communicate a unique identifier of the user device and an indication of the at least one selected offer to a coupon platform, and to receive the at least one selected offer to be printed if the at least one selected offer is available. Embodiments are also configured to bypass a print dialog box to provide the at least one selected offer directly to a default printer associated with the user device. Specific embodiments are configured to communicate to the coupon platform whether the print was successful. In specific embodiments, coupon codes are not displayed with the one or more coupon offers.

主权项

1. A method, comprising:
providing, for display on a display screen of a user device, one or more coupon offers; receiving information indicating at least one offer is selected by a user; communicating a unique identifier of the user device and an indication of the at least one selected offer to a coupon platform; receiving the at least one selected offer to be printed if the at least one selected offer is available; bypassing a print dialog box to provide the at least one selected offer directly to a default printer associated with the user device; receiving, from the default printer, an indication of whether the at least one selected offer was successfully printed; and disabling the at least one selected offer after receiving an indication that the at least one selected offer was successfully printed, wherein the disabling includes blocking a user from selecting the at least one selected offer to be printed, wherein the one or more coupon offers include only coupon offers that have not been successfully printed by the user device, and wherein the determination of whether a coupon offer has not been printed on the user device is based, at least in part, on the media access control (MAC) address of the user device.