Lottery credit card rewards system

• US 20050149393A1
• Filed: 01/06/2004
• Published: 07/07/2005
• Est. Priority Date: 01/06/2004
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Eugene Leof
• Original Assignee: Eugene Leof
• Inventors: Leof, Eugene
• Application Number:
  US10/753,234
• Publication Number:
  US 20050149393A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 705/14.120
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/02 Marketing; Price estimation or determination; Fundraising
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0209 Incentive being awarded or redeemed in connection with the playing of a video game
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0212 Chance discounts or incentives
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0224 based on user history
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0226 Incentive systems for frequent usage, e.g. frequent flyer miles programs or point systems
• CPC Class Codes: G07F 17/3255 Incentive, loyalty and/or promotion schemes, e.g. comps, gaming associated with a purchase, gaming funded by advertisements
• CPC Class Codes: G07F 17/329 Regular and instant lottery, e.g. electronic scratch cards

Abstract

A credit card loyalty program, based upon a state lottery. The end user receives a credit card with a lottery reward feature. As purchases are made, the customer accumulates credits which can be used to purchase lottery tickets via toll free number, mail or online website.

Claims

1. A method of issuing lottery tickets to an authorized user of a credit card who incurs debts on the card.

storing in a data processing device an amount of the paid purchase on the credit card by an authorized user of the card;

defining and storing in the data processing device a number representing a monetary amount for which the user can receive a lottery ticket;

calculating in the data processing device a quantity of the lottery tickets earned by the user based on the quantity of paid purchases by the end user; and

crediting the user with the lottery tickets.

3. The novel customer loyalty game of claim 1 further comprising the step of providing additional lottery tickets if the customer'"'"'s purchases achieve pre-selected minimums of products.

4. The novel customer loyalty game of claim 1 wherein the customer can be awarded additional lottery tickets if the customer purchases certain pre-identified products.

2. A novel customer loyalty game played according to the following steps:

registering a customer for a lottery loyalty promotion associated with a credit card; and

providing at least one lottery ticket to the customer, based upon the monetary amount a customer purchases based upon a pre-set algorithm;

5. A system for operating a customer loyalty game played according to the following steps:

means for inputting customer information and registering the customer to participate in the lottery credit card based customer loyalty game;

means under the control of a computer program for determining the award of lottery tickets based upon pre-selected purchasing parameters;

means for assigning the lottery tickets to a registered customer based upon the spending level of the customer with respect to the purchasing parameters; and

means for providing the end user with the ability to access the numbers.