Reward system
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1. A method for operating a reward program comprising the steps of:
- establishing a plurality of product categories;
receiving an indication of selected ones of the product categories;
tracking a customer'"'"'s purchases in at least the selected product categories; and
providing a reward to said customer based at least in part upon the customer'"'"'s purchases in the selected product categories over a discreet period of time.
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Abstract
A method for operating a reward program including the steps of establishing a plurality of product categories and receiving an indication of selected ones of the product categories. The method further includes the step of tracking customer purchases in at least the selected categories and providing a reward to the customer based at least in part upon customer purchases in the selected categories.
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36 Claims
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1. A method for operating a reward program comprising the steps of:
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establishing a plurality of product categories;
receiving an indication of selected ones of the product categories;
tracking a customer'"'"'s purchases in at least the selected product categories; and
providing a reward to said customer based at least in part upon the customer'"'"'s purchases in the selected product categories over a discreet period of time. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23)
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24. A method for operating a reward program comprising the steps of:
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establishing a plurality of product categories;
setting a purchase threshold;
receiving an indication of selected ones of the product categories as selected by a customer;
tracking said customer'"'"'s purchases in at least the selected categories;
at some time after the customer reaches the purchase threshold, calculating a reward based at least in part upon customer purchases in the selected categories; and
providing said reward to said customer.
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25. A method for operating a reward system comprising the steps of:
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tracking a customer reward based at least in part upon customer purchases over a selected period of time, wherein said reward accumulates but cannot be used during said selected period of time; and
providing a window of time after said selected period of time wherein said customer reward may be used, and wherein said reward does not accumulate during said window of time.
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26. A system for tracking and calculating customer rewards comprising:
at least one computer programmed to track the amounts of customer purchases in a plurality of predetermined product categories for a plurality of customers, and to calculate a reward for each customer based at least in part upon the customer purchases in selected ones of said predetermined product categories. - View Dependent Claims (27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32)
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33. A software device for operating on a computer and for tracking and calculating customer rewards, the software including:
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a tracking module for tracking the amounts of customer purchases in a plurality of predetermined product categories for a plurality of customers; and
a calculating module for calculating a reward for each customer based at least in part upon the customer purchases in selected ones of said predetermined product categories. - View Dependent Claims (34, 35, 36)
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