Delivery, organization, and redemption of virtual offers from the internet, interactive-TV, wireless devices and other electronic means
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1. A method of distributing promotional offers to consumers comprising:
- a) establishing a list of electronic contact addresses for a plurality of consumers;
b) creating a plurality of enabled promotional offers, each enabled promotional offer including validation information that identifies it with a particular consumer;
c) distributing the enabled promotional offers via the electronic contact addresses for the plurality of consumers, wherein the enabled promotional offers can be electronically accepted by at least some of the particular consumers with whom they are identified;
d) upon the electronic acceptance of at least one of the enabled promotional offers by at least one consumer, placing the accepted promotional offer in a coupon database associated with the at least one consumer;
e) establishing or maintaining an association of the at least one consumer'"'"'s coupon database with the at least one consumer'"'"'s payment system; and
f) electronically receiving a redemption of the accepted promotional offer by means of the consumer'"'"'s presentment of the associated payment system.
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Abstract
Disclosed are methods and systems for redeeming virtual coupons by associating the coupons with consumers'"'"' credit cards for redemption. In disclosed methods, coupon databases are associated with consumers and associated with the consumers'"'"' credit cards. Coupon offers are stored in the coupon databases and are redeemed by consumers by the use of the credit cards that are associated with the consumers'"'"' coupon databases.
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1. A method of distributing promotional offers to consumers comprising:
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a) establishing a list of electronic contact addresses for a plurality of consumers;
b) creating a plurality of enabled promotional offers, each enabled promotional offer including validation information that identifies it with a particular consumer;
c) distributing the enabled promotional offers via the electronic contact addresses for the plurality of consumers, wherein the enabled promotional offers can be electronically accepted by at least some of the particular consumers with whom they are identified;
d) upon the electronic acceptance of at least one of the enabled promotional offers by at least one consumer, placing the accepted promotional offer in a coupon database associated with the at least one consumer;
e) establishing or maintaining an association of the at least one consumer'"'"'s coupon database with the at least one consumer'"'"'s payment system; and
f) electronically receiving a redemption of the accepted promotional offer by means of the consumer'"'"'s presentment of the associated payment system. - 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, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34, 35, 36, 37)
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38. A method of distributing promotional offers to consumers comprising:
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a) establishing a list of electronic contact addresses for a plurality of consumers;
b) creating a plurality of enabled promotional offers, each enabled promotional offer including validation information that identifies it with a particular consumer;
c) establishing a coupon database for each of the plurality of consumers;
d) registering a payment system for each of the plurality of consumers;
e) distributing the enabled promotional offers to the electronic contact addresses for the consumers with whom the promotional offers are identified, wherein the enabled promotional offer can be electronically accepted by the identified consumer;
f) upon the electronic acceptance of the enabled promotional offer by the identified consumer, placing the accepted promotional offer in the coupon database associated with that consumer; and
g) electronically receiving a redemption of the accepted promotional offer by means of the consumer'"'"'s presentment of the associated payment system. - View Dependent Claims (39, 40, 41, 42, 43)
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44. A method of distributing promotion offers from a list owner having an electronic means of communication between itself and a plurality of consumers as well as payment system information for at least some of the plurality of consumers, the method comprising:
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providing a matching list from the list owner to a matching agent, the matching list comprising identification of at least some of the particular consumers and their associated payment systems;
receiving a promotional offer from a marketer;
creating a plurality of enabled promotional offers from the promotional offer received from the marketer, the enabled promotional offers including validation information that identifies a particular enabled promotional offer with a particular consumer who is connected to the list owner through the electronic means of communication;
electronically distributing the enabled promotional offers to the plurality of consumers, wherein the enabled promotional offers can be electronically accepted by at least some of the particular consumers with whom they are identified;
upon the electronic acceptance of an enabled promotional offer by at least one consumer, placing the accepted promotional offer in a coupon database associated with the at least one consumer;
establishing or maintaining an association of the at least one consumer'"'"'s coupon database with the at least one consumer'"'"'s associated payment system;
electronically receiving a redemption of the accepted promotional offer initiated by means of the consumer'"'"'s presentment of the associated payment system. - View Dependent Claims (45, 46, 47, 48, 49, 50)
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