Unified electronic transaction fulfillment
First Claim
1. A system providing unified transaction fulfillment comprising:
- a portable media capable of storing and/or displaying at least one unique UPC bar code; and
a computing application capable of deciphering the one unique UPC bar code from the media and processing said UPC bar code to determine affinities relating to product and/or service purchases and for use in payment processes.
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Abstract
A variety of electronic payment solutions and user affinity system and methods are provided. The electronic payment solutions allow participating customers to exploit legacy transaction systems and provide a basis to electronically establish user affinities that may be employed as part of one or more targeted marketing efforts. In an illustrative implementation, a participating user is issued a UPC bar code ID that is storable on a variety of media ranging from print medium to electronic media (FOB wand, stored in a cell phone, SIM Card, or other mobile computing device). The UPC bar code ID may be linked to the participating user'"'"'s bank and/or credit card accounts. In operation, when the participating user purchases a product and/or service, the participating user offers the UPC bar code ID to the retailer to pay for the product and/or service. The retailer processes the UPC bar code ID using legacy UPC bar code ID transaction equipment to indicate the appropriate charges against the participating users'"'"' account(s).
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37 Claims
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1. A system providing unified transaction fulfillment comprising:
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a portable media capable of storing and/or displaying at least one unique UPC bar code; and
a computing application capable of deciphering the one unique UPC bar code from the media and processing said UPC bar code to determine affinities relating to product and/or service purchases and for use in payment processes. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14)
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15. A method for unified transaction fulfillment comprising the steps of:
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providing a consumer with a unique UPC bar code, said unique UPC bar code being associated with consumer information comprising any of;
consumer bank/credit card accounts, consumer product/service preferences, and consumer affinities;
providing retailers with a computing application operating in a computing environment, wherein said computing application is capable of receiving said unique UPC bar code and processing said unique UPC bar code to realize two or more of the following operations;
product/service payment, consumer tracking, targeted marketing, and consumer affinity determinations. - View Dependent Claims (16, 17, 18)
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19. A system providing unified transaction fulfillment comprising:
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a media capable of storing and/or displaying data indicative of a desired product and/or service; and
a computing application capable of receiving said data from said media and processing said data as part of a subsequent transaction fulfillment. - View Dependent Claims (20, 21, 22, 23)
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24. At a point of sale a method to realize transaction fulfillment comprising the steps of:
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responsive to the purchase of a product and/or service, receiving a unique UPC bar code at the point of sale, the unique UPC bar code having associated with it payment and affinity information for a customer; and
retrieving the associated customer information using the unique UPC bar code from a data store operating in a computing environment, the computing environment executing a computing application capable of performing transaction fulfillment and affinity determination. - View Dependent Claims (25, 26)
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27. An apparatus to realize transaction fulfillment comprising:
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a media capable of storing and/or displaying a unique UPC bar code, the UPC bar code having information indicative of customer information including customer payment information, customer affinity information, customer coupon preferences; and
a communication component, the communication component capable of communicating the unique UPC bar code to a cooperating computing environment for use in payment processes and in affinity determination processes. - View Dependent Claims (28, 29, 30, 31)
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32. A system providing unified transaction fulfillment comprising:
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a means for storing and/or displaying data indicative of a desired product and/or service; and
a means for receiving said data from said media and processing said data as part of a subsequent transaction fulfillment. - View Dependent Claims (33, 34, 35, 36)
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37. An apparatus to realize transaction fulfillment comprising:
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a means for storing data, the means for storing capable of storing and/or displaying a unique UPC bar code, the UPC bar code having information indicative of customer information including customer payment information, customer affinity information, customer coupon preferences; and
a communication means, the communication means capable of communicating the unique UPC bar code to a cooperating computing environment for use in payment processes and in affinity determination processes.
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