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First Claim
1. An electronic, online Storefront approach provided to brand manufacturers and advertisers to target market specific incentive offers to specific regions, to verify and track fraudulently submitted incentive offers, subsequent to redemption, and to automatically, electronically provide rebates as building customer loyalty and acquire consumer demographics and psychographics, comprising of:
- An Internet Storefront approach providing online target marketing by Stores (Brands and Advertisers) on a consignment basis being remunerated on redemption, not on a coupon printed or click thru basis;
An electronic database to provide information and record all transactions;
A proprietary routing software system, connecting deciphering redemption scanning and rebate information;
A server maintaining all information, fully accessible to the Storefront as well as the Store. I claim that specific departments are issued to contracting brands and advertisers (stores);
These departments are actually display areas controlled by the Stores, hosted on the Storefront. Each Store'"'"'s department is proprietary. A variety of Stores may participate on the Storefront, and can provide an infinite number of items or categories. Access into each department is gained through confidential passwords and login codes established and maintained by the Stores. The Stores produce and submit their own offers to be displayed in their departments, showcased on the inventor'"'"'s Internet website. The Stores has the ability to maintain their own departments and their own displays. The Stores determine how many offers are to made available daily;
The Stores determine what regions are to receive what incentives. Incentive offers may be national, regional or local, in scope. I claim that each offer displayed by a Store may contain indigenous information;
The Store name;
The item or brand name The value of the incentive;
Disclaimers and modifiers for the incentive;
The origin of the incentive by zip code;
I claim that the incentives displayed in the Stores are viewed and selected by end users/web shoppers. The incentives are free to the end user;
Are available twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week;
Viewable and printable by the end user, at their discretion;
Are printed on the end user'"'"'s printer. I claim that each printed incentive is identified and maintained in the proprietary back end database, by the Storefront. I claim that the printed incentive offers may contain items referenced in # 4 and # 5 as well as the following;
Demographic information provided by the end user (web shopper) i.e. name, date of birth, sex, marital status, and other personal information. Bar codes;
An indigenous identification number or tracking code, which is logged into the Storefront'"'"'s database for tracking and rebate purposes. I further claim that the Storefront'"'"'s database maintains all necessary information regarding the Stores, their departments, displays, links, rebates and customer accounts. I claim that Activity Reports on incentive activity are available to the Stores though the Storefront'"'"'s proprietary, backend database and software. Activity reports provide the brands and advertisers tracking capability;
Where each item is displayed in their Store;
How many web shoppers saw the display (impressions);
How many web shoppers actually viewed the incentive offer;
How many web shoppers actually selected and printed out incentive offers;
How many incentives offers each the web shoppers actually selected and printed out;
Where the web shoppers are based;
Where the incentives were provided and redeemed;
From what regions web shoppers came;
What was the heaviest concentration of activity and when;
How large their loyalty base is on their Storefront. I claim that these reports may be viewed online or printed out by the Store.
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Abstract
An electronic Storefront (website approach) provided through the Internet, where specific brands or advertisers are provided proprietary departments (Stores) to promote any variety of product incentives, i.e. coupons, rebates, discounts etc . . . to specific regions. These all-electronic transactions and communication are maintained in the Storefront'"'"'s proprietary database provide tracking and identification of selected incentives, printed out and redeemed, as well as any rebates automatically provided through the proprietary software program utilizing indigenous tracking numbers or household identification number to every transaction. All of this is accomplished in a redemption-based remuneration approach.
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3 Claims
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1. An electronic, online Storefront approach provided to brand manufacturers and advertisers to target market specific incentive offers to specific regions, to verify and track fraudulently submitted incentive offers, subsequent to redemption, and to automatically, electronically provide rebates as building customer loyalty and acquire consumer demographics and psychographics, comprising of:
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An Internet Storefront approach providing online target marketing by Stores (Brands and Advertisers) on a consignment basis being remunerated on redemption, not on a coupon printed or click thru basis;
An electronic database to provide information and record all transactions;
A proprietary routing software system, connecting deciphering redemption scanning and rebate information;
A server maintaining all information, fully accessible to the Storefront as well as the Store.I claim that specific departments are issued to contracting brands and advertisers (stores);
These departments are actually display areas controlled by the Stores, hosted on the Storefront. Each Store'"'"'s department is proprietary. A variety of Stores may participate on the Storefront, and can provide an infinite number of items or categories. Access into each department is gained through confidential passwords and login codes established and maintained by the Stores. The Stores produce and submit their own offers to be displayed in their departments, showcased on the inventor'"'"'s Internet website. The Stores has the ability to maintain their own departments and their own displays. The Stores determine how many offers are to made available daily;
The Stores determine what regions are to receive what incentives. Incentive offers may be national, regional or local, in scope.I claim that each offer displayed by a Store may contain indigenous information;
The Store name;
The item or brand name The value of the incentive;
Disclaimers and modifiers for the incentive;
The origin of the incentive by zip code;
I claim that the incentives displayed in the Stores are viewed and selected by end users/web shoppers. The incentives are free to the end user;
Are available twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week;
Viewable and printable by the end user, at their discretion;
Are printed on the end user'"'"'s printer. I claim that each printed incentive is identified and maintained in the proprietary back end database, by the Storefront. I claim that the printed incentive offers may contain items referenced in # 4 and # 5 as well as the following;
Demographic information provided by the end user (web shopper) i.e. name, date of birth, sex, marital status, and other personal information. Bar codes;
An indigenous identification number or tracking code, which is logged into the Storefront'"'"'s database for tracking and rebate purposes.I further claim that the Storefront'"'"'s database maintains all necessary information regarding the Stores, their departments, displays, links, rebates and customer accounts. I claim that Activity Reports on incentive activity are available to the Stores though the Storefront'"'"'s proprietary, backend database and software. Activity reports provide the brands and advertisers tracking capability;
Where each item is displayed in their Store;
How many web shoppers saw the display (impressions);
How many web shoppers actually viewed the incentive offer;
How many web shoppers actually selected and printed out incentive offers;
How many incentives offers each the web shoppers actually selected and printed out;
Where the web shoppers are based;
Where the incentives were provided and redeemed;
From what regions web shoppers came;
What was the heaviest concentration of activity and when;
How large their loyalty base is on their Storefront. I claim that these reports may be viewed online or printed out by the Store.
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2. Identification and elimination of fraudulent submissions, as well as the automatic electronic rebates are accomplished by:
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Tracking of impressions and print out activity for the incentives displayed by the Stores, and submitted to redemption facilities;
Indigenous identification numbers are printed on every incentive offer printed out through the Storefront. Proprietary software is utilized at the redemption level to track activity on packaged goods as well as to determine rebate eligibility;
Information is retrieved at the time of the scanning the offers and accumulated as the incentives are processed by redemption facilities. The system comparatively scans the data accumulated for duplicates. The data extracted from the scan is accumulated, interpreted and Stored by the Storefront for use by the Stores.
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3. Electronic rebates are automatically provided to shoppers by the brands, following the redemption process. The shopper receives the full value for the coupon offered as well as the rebate, once redemption has been established by the Storefront. In this way the shopper can be automatically rewarded for their loyalty by the brand(Store) and still obtain the full face value of any coupon offers provided through the
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