ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,354,126, issued on July 8, was assigned to TAPTEXT LLC (Coral Springs, Fla.).
"System and method for text-based delivery of sales promotions" was invented by Steve Doumar (Fort Lauderdale, Fla.) and Paul Levasseur (Fort Lauderdale, Fla.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method for obtaining sales promotions via a text-messaging based interaction. The system comprises a call-to-action link that reduces the number of steps needed to obtain a sales promotion via a website. The call-to-action link triggers a prepopulated text message on a user's mobile device, whereby the user needs to only press send, and receive the sales promotio...