Kristina G Gibson

US Patent:

8320944, Nov 27, 2012

Filed:

Jan 4, 2010

Appl. No.:

12/651965

Inventors:

Kristina Gibson - San Francisco CA, US
Ben Ross - San Francisco CA, US
Christopher W. Phillips - Berkeley CA, US
Tonya Rado - Tiburon CA, US
Manish R. Shah - Mountain View CA, US

Assignee:

Intuit Inc. - Mountain View CA

International Classification:

H04W 4/00

US Classification:

455466, 4554141, 705 1454

Abstract:

A method and system for creating customer lists and customer profiles using mobile computing systems whereby A mobile computing system based marketing device, such as a Short Message Service (SMS) message, is created by the merchant and/or product marketer through a mobile application that includes one or more “hooks” that are presented to the mobile customers to inquire about a given mobile customer's interest level in the mobile computing system based marketing device and/or the specific offer made through the mobile computing system based marketing device. The mobile computing system based marketing device is then distributed to selected mobile customers and one or more of the selected mobile customers who receive the mobile computing system based marketing device respond, or fail to respond, to the mobile computing system based marketing device. Response data is then generated and stored in a mobile customer database and is used to create and/or update mobile customer profiles associated with the respective selected mobile customers in the mobile customer database.

US Patent:

8346226, Jan 1, 2013

Filed:

Feb 1, 2010

Appl. No.:

12/697462

Inventors:

Kristina Gibson - San Francisco CA, US
Ben Ross - San Francisco CA, US
Christopher W. Phillips - Berkeley CA, US
Tonya Rado - San Francisco CA, US
Manish R. Shah - Mountain View CA, US

Assignee:

Intuit Inc. - Mountain View CA

International Classification:

H04M 3/42

US Classification:

4554141, 4554122, 4554121, 4555501, 455466, 455566, 705 144, 705 1453, 705 1423

Abstract:

A method and system for creating a web listing using a mobile phone whereby a user, typically a business owner or a representative of the business, provides information/data associated with the business to a mobile application including an on-line directory service using a merchant mobile phone, or other mobile computing system, associated with the user and/or the business and/or a mobile application, and/or an SMS and/or another mobile communications network. The information associated with the business provided via the merchant mobile phone, or other mobile computing system, is then used by the on-line directory service to create an on-line presence for the business such as, but not limited to, an on-line web-listing for the business in the on-line directory that includes at least part of the information associated with the business provided via the merchant mobile phone, or other mobile computing system.