公开(公告)号：US08548847B2

公开(公告)日：2013-10-01

申请号：US11143705

申请日：2005-06-03

申请人： Gregory B. Roberts ,  Scott Wills

发明人： Gregory B. Roberts ,  Scott Wills

IPC分类号： G06Q30/00

CPC分类号： G06Q30/0259 ,  G01C21/362 ,  G06Q30/02 ,  G06Q30/0207 ,  G06Q30/0261 ,  G06Q30/0266 ,  G06Q30/0267

摘要： A method and system for generating customized incentives involving electronic distribution of coupons to remote personal computers based on proximity of the computer to a retail center are disclosed. A repository, such as an online service provider or a web site on the Internet, stores packages of incentive data for downloading automatically or on demand to a user's computer. A plurality of data fields is used to associate a user's location with a specific incentive. The incentive data corresponds to remote user computers in a predetermined geographic area. Means for identifying remote user computers in a predetermined geographic area and means for providing direction data, such as maps, etc. to the remote user computer are disclosed.

摘要翻译： 公开了一种用于产生定制激励的方法和系统，该方法和系统涉及基于计算机与零售中心的接近度将优惠券电子分配给远程个人计算机。 诸如在线服务提供商或互联网上的网站之类的存储库将自动或按需下载的激励数据包存储到用户的计算机。 多个数据字段用于将用户的位置与特定激励相关联。 激励数据对应于预定地理区域中的远程用户计算机。 公开了用于识别预定地理区域中的远程用户计算机的装置和用于向远程用户计算机提供诸如地图等方向数据的装置。

公开(公告)号：US08484076B2

公开(公告)日：2013-07-09

申请号：US10937355

申请日：2004-09-10

申请人： Gregory B. Roberts ,  Scott Wills

发明人： Gregory B. Roberts ,  Scott Wills

IPC分类号： G06Q30/00

CPC分类号： G06Q30/0259 ,  G06Q30/02 ,  G06Q30/0211 ,  G06Q30/0212 ,  G06Q30/0235

摘要： A method and system for generating customized incentives involving electronic distribution of coupons to remote personal computers based on proximity of the computer to a retail center are disclosed. A repository, such as an online service provider or a web site on the Internet, stores packages of incentive data for downloading automatically or on demand to a user's computer. A plurality of data fields is used to associate a user's location with a specific incentive.

摘要翻译： 公开了一种用于产生定制激励的方法和系统，该方法和系统涉及基于计算机与零售中心的接近度将优惠券电子分配给远程个人计算机。 诸如在线服务提供商或互联网上的网站之类的存储库将自动或按需下载的激励数据包存储到用户的计算机。 多个数据字段用于将用户的位置与特定激励相关联。

公开(公告)号：US08620733B2

公开(公告)日：2013-12-31

申请号：US10937504

申请日：2004-09-10

申请人： Gregory B. Roberts ,  Scott Wills

发明人： Gregory B. Roberts ,  Scott Wills

IPC分类号： G06Q30/00

CPC分类号： G06Q30/0259 ,  G06Q30/02 ,  G06Q30/0261 ,  G06Q30/0267 ,  G06Q30/0269

摘要： A method and system for electronic distribution of incentives having real-time consumer-based directions according to another embodiment of the present invention are disclosed. An online promotion service may receive user profile information, which may include demographic information, location information, user preferences, user requests, and other information. Online promotion service may provide targeted incentives and promotions to a particular user or class of users based on user profile information and other information. Incentives may include coupons, promotions, rebates, sales notifications, free samples, and other product or service related incentives. A map and street directions identifying the location of associated facilities, such as redemption and retail/point-of-sale facilities, from a user's location may also be provided. The user's location may be identified as the user's home address, work address, or other convenient locations.

摘要翻译： 公开了一种根据本发明的另一实施例的用于具有基于消费者的实时方向的激励的电子分配的方法和系统。 在线促销服务可以接收用户简档信息，其可以包括人口统计信息，位置信息，用户偏好，用户请求和其他信息。 在线促销服务可以基于用户简档信息和其他信息向特定用户或用户类别提供有针对性的激励和促销。 激励措施可能包括优惠券，促销，回扣，销售通知，免费样品以及其他产品或服务相关的激励措施。 还可以提供从用户的位置确定相关设施的位置的地图和街道方向，例如兑换和零售/销售点设施。 用户的位置可以被识别为用户的家庭住址，工作地址或其他方便的位置。

公开(公告)号：US06493110B1

公开(公告)日：2002-12-10

申请号：US09543736

申请日：2000-04-05

申请人： Gregory B. Roberts

发明人： Gregory B. Roberts

IPC分类号： G06F1300

CPC分类号： G06Q30/02 ,  G06K7/10851 ,  G06K7/14 ,  G06Q20/387 ,  G07G1/145 ,  G07G5/00

摘要： A method and system for rendering accurate bar code images in a distributed network wherein a plurality of different types of rendering devices, such as printers, having different resolution characteristics are connected for rendering such images. The resolution of a connected rendering device is detected and the bar code image to be rendered by such device is scaled to effect proper alignment of the resolution units of the bar code and the rendering device whereby the need for interpolation is effectively obviated. The bar code is scaled by a whole integer multiplier of the minimum bar code size based upon at least one dimension of the print area of the bar code display and the resolution characteristic of the rendering device. The bar code image is aligned or mapped and is centered in the display area with equal units of the excess print area on either side of the image. By avoiding the need to interpolate print data by the rendering device, the bar code rendering system defeats inaccuracies in detection and decoding and provides a more reliable data recovery system.

摘要翻译： 一种用于在分布式网络中呈现精确条形码图像的方法和系统，其中连接具有不同分辨率特征的多种不同类型的渲染设备（诸如打印机），以便渲染这样的图像。 检测连接的再现设备的分辨率，并且缩放由该设备呈现的条形码图像，以便对条形码和再现设备的分辨率单元进行适当的对准，从而有效地避免了对内插的需要。 基于条形码显示的打印区域和渲染设备的分辨率特性的至少一个维度，条形码被最小条形码尺寸的整数乘数缩放。 条形码图像对齐或映射，并且在显示区域中居中，图像的任一侧具有相等的多余打印区域单位。 通过避免需要通过渲染设备来内插打印数据，条形码渲染系统在检测和解码中失败不准确，并提供更可靠的数据恢复系统。

公开(公告)号：US06882442B2

公开(公告)日：2005-04-19

申请号：US10314267

申请日：2002-12-09

申请人： Gregory B. Roberts

发明人： Gregory B. Roberts

IPC分类号： G06K7/10 ,  G06K7/14 ,  G06Q20/38 ,  G06Q30/02 ,  G07G1/14 ,  G07G5/00 ,  G06F15/00

CPC分类号： G06Q30/02 ,  G06K7/10851 ,  G06K7/14 ,  G06Q20/387 ,  G07G1/145 ,  G07G5/00

摘要： A method and system for rendering accurate bar code images in a distributed network wherein a plurality of different types of rendering devices, such as printers, having different resolution characteristics are connected for rendering such images. The resolution of a connected rendering device is detected and the bar code image to be rendered by such device is scaled to effect proper alignment of the resolution units of the bar code and the rendering device whereby the need for interpolation is effectively obviated. The bar code is scaled by a whole integer multiplier of the minimum bar code size based upon at least one dimension of the print area of the bar code display and the resolution characteristic of the rendering device. The bar code image is aligned or mapped and is centered in the display area with equal units of the excess print area on either side of the image. By avoiding the need to interpolate print data by the rendering device, the bar code rendering system defeats inaccuracies in detection and decoding and provides a more reliable data recovery system.

摘要翻译： 一种用于在分布式网络中呈现精确条形码图像的方法和系统，其中连接具有不同分辨率特征的多种不同类型的渲染设备（诸如打印机），以便渲染这样的图像。 检测连接的再现设备的分辨率，并且缩放由该设备呈现的条形码图像，以便对条形码和再现设备的分辨率单元进行适当的对准，从而有效地避免了对内插的需要。 基于条形码显示的打印区域和渲染设备的分辨率特性的至少一个维度，条形码被最小条形码尺寸的整数乘数缩放。 条形码图像对齐或映射，并且在显示区域中居中，图像的任一侧具有相等的多余打印区域单位。 通过避免需要通过渲染设备来内插打印数据，条形码渲染系统在检测和解码中失败不准确，并提供更可靠的数据恢复系统。