公开(公告)号：US20050015300A1

公开(公告)日：2005-01-20

申请号：US10622305

申请日：2003-07-16

申请人： Mark Smith ,  Tim Halfman ,  Brian Rock

发明人： Mark Smith ,  Tim Halfman ,  Brian Rock

IPC分类号： G06Q30/00 ,  G07G1/00 ,  G06F17/60

CPC分类号： G06Q30/02 ,  G06Q20/387 ,  G06Q30/0235 ,  G06Q30/0238 ,  G07G1/0036

摘要： A system and a method for handling the redemption, clearing and settlement of a large number of individually targeted offers is provided. The method broadly comprises the steps of compiling a database of electronic offers, allowing access to the database by at least one point of sale system, providing said at least one point of sale system with a redemption engine for validating at least one offer to be made to a consumer while a sales transaction is being processed by the at least one point of sale system, identifying a consumer and a sales transaction event involving the consumer, determining whether electronically stored conditions of any offer available to the consumer and stored on the database have been satisfied using the redemption engine, and providing a reward to the consumer at the at least one point of sale system if the electronically stored conditions of the offer have been satisfied.

摘要翻译： 提供了一系列的处理赎回，结算和解决大量针对性的报价的方法。 该方法广泛地包括编译电子报价数据库的步骤，允许通过至少一个销售点系统访问数据库，向所述至少一个销售点系统提供一个用于验证至少一个要约的兑换引擎 对销售交易正在由至少一个销售点系统处理，识别涉及消费者的消费者和销售交易事件，确定电子存储的任何可用于消费者并存储在数据库上的报价的条件是否具有 使用兑换引擎满意，并且如果已经满足电子存储的要约条件，则在至少一个销售点系统向消费者提供奖励。

公开(公告)号：US20050171845A1

公开(公告)日：2005-08-04

申请号：US11047333

申请日：2005-01-28

申请人： Tim Halfman ,  Brian Rock ,  Mark Smith

发明人： Tim Halfman ,  Brian Rock ,  Mark Smith

IPC分类号： G06Q30/00 ,  G07G5/00 ,  G06F17/60

CPC分类号： G06Q30/02 ,  G06Q20/20 ,  G06Q30/0224 ,  G06Q30/0237 ,  G06Q30/0238 ,  G06Q30/0268 ,  G07G5/00

摘要： A system is provided for delivering a message and/or offer to consumers at the POS terminal by communicating through electronic displays and/or printing the message and/or offer onto a customer receipt tape that shows the items, totals, and payment made during a shopping event. The message and/or offer communicated to the consumer is gathered from a database which contains a plurality of promotional materials including promotional messages, advertisement, discount coupons, and offers. The system provides the enabled retailers and offer distributors with the ability to send an offer communication for cents-off, discounts, and other promotional messages so that it can be displayed and/or printed directly onto the receipt tape itself through the point of sale (POS) terminal in use.

摘要翻译： 提供了一种系统，用于通过电子显示器的通信和/或将消息和/或提供给客户收据带来在POS终端处向消费者传递消息和/或提供消息，并提供给消费者和 购物活动。 从包含促销消息，广告，优惠券和优惠的多种促销材料的数据库收集传达给消费者的消息和/或报价。 该系统为所启用的零售商提供了便利，并为分销商提供发送分拣，折扣和其他促销信息的报价通信的能力，使其能够通过销售点直接显示和/或打印到收据胶带本身上 POS）终端使用。

公开(公告)号：US20050033643A1

公开(公告)日：2005-02-10

申请号：US10937063

申请日：2004-09-08

申请人： Mark Smith ,  Brian Rock ,  Tim Halfman

发明人： Mark Smith ,  Brian Rock ,  Tim Halfman

IPC分类号： G06Q30/00 ,  G07G1/00 ,  G06F17/60

CPC分类号： G07G1/0036 ,  G06Q20/20 ,  G06Q20/387 ,  G06Q30/02 ,  G06Q30/0235 ,  G06Q30/0238 ,  G06Q30/0239

摘要： A method for handling the redemption, clearing and settlement of individually targeted offers includes the steps of compiling a database of offers, accessing the database with at least one point of sale (POS) system, providing the POS system(s) with a redemption engine for validating offers to be made to a consumer while a sales transaction is being processed, using the redemption engine to determine whether conditions of any offer have been satisfied and providing a reward associated with the offer to the consumer if the conditions have been satisfied, scanning at least one printed coupon presented by the consumer during the sales transaction with a coupon reading device, validating each printed coupon offer using the redemption engine, and providing a reward to the consumer if the redemption engine determines that the conditions of the printed coupon offer(s) have been satisfied.

摘要翻译： 一种用于处理单独针对性提供的兑换，清算和结算的方法包括编译提供数据库的步骤，使用至少一个销售点（POS）系统访问数据库，向POS系统提供兑换引擎 用于在销售交易正在处理时验证对消费者的要约，使用兑换引擎来确定是否满足任何报价的条件，并且如果满足条件则向消费者提供与该报价相关的报酬，扫描 消费者在与购物券阅读装置的销售交易期间呈现的至少一张打印的优惠券，使用兑换引擎验证每个打印的优惠券报价，并且如果兑换引擎确定打印的优惠券提供的条件（如果 s）已经满足。