Promotional advertising system and method for redeeming promotions using electronic customer credits
First Claim
1. A method for providing electronic promotions to customers, comprising the steps of:
- maintaining promotion information for a business, said promotion information identifying one or more promotions offered by said business;
maintaining customer information for a customer, said customer information identifying customer credits for said one or more promotions, said customer information having a customer identifier associated therewith;
electronically accessing said customer information using said customer identifier provided by said customer on a promotional card to determine said customer credits for said business;
selecting a select one of said customer credits to redeem said select customer credit for said customer and provide said promotion associated with said select customer credit to said customer; and
deleting said select customer credit from said customer information.
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Abstract
A promotional advertising system that is capable of providing electronic promotions to customers includes a database that maintains promotion information for a business and customer information for a customer. The promotion information identifies one or more promotions offered by the business, and the customer information identifies customer credits for the promotions. In addition, the customer information has a customer identifier associated therewith, which is provided on a promotional card to the customer. The on-line promotional advertising system further includes a web server for accessing the customer information in the database using the customer identifier provided by the customer to the business to determine the available customer credits for the business. The web server further selects one of the customer credits to enable the business to provide a discount to the customer, and deletes the selected customer credit from the customer information.
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20 Claims
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1. A method for providing electronic promotions to customers, comprising the steps of:
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maintaining promotion information for a business, said promotion information identifying one or more promotions offered by said business;
maintaining customer information for a customer, said customer information identifying customer credits for said one or more promotions, said customer information having a customer identifier associated therewith;
electronically accessing said customer information using said customer identifier provided by said customer on a promotional card to determine said customer credits for said business;
selecting a select one of said customer credits to redeem said select customer credit for said customer and provide said promotion associated with said select customer credit to said customer; and
deleting said select customer credit from said customer information. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10)
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11. A promotional advertising system for providing electronic promotions to customers, comprising:
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a database configured to maintain promotion information for a business, said promotion information identifying one or more promotions offered by said business and to maintain customer information for a customer, said customer information identifying customer credits for said one or more promotions, said customer information having a customer identifier associated therewith; and
a web server operable to access said customer information in said database using said customer identifier provided by said customer on a promotional card to said business to determine said customer credits for said business;
wherein said web server is further operable to select a select one of said customer credits to enable said business to redeem said select customer credit for said customer and provide said promotion associated with said select customer credit to said customer;
wherein said web server is further operable to delete said select customer credit from said customer information. - View Dependent Claims (12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20)
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