Method and System for Providing Householding Information to Multiple Merchants
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1. A method for providing householding information to merchants, the method comprising:
- receiving a request to provide householding indicia from a merchant;
extracting customer loyalty identification indicia specific to the merchant and any householding indicia associated with such customer loyalty identification indicia from a database including customer loyalty identification indicia for a plurality of merchants; and
transmitting the extracted customer loyalty identification indicia and associated householding indicia to the merchant in a format indicating the association between the customer loyalty identification indicia and the associated householding indicia, wherein at least two of the customer loyalty identification indicia share the same associated householding indicia.
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Abstract
A method is provided for offering householding information to multiple merchants. Merchant specific loyalty information may be linked with internally generated household identification information. Such information may be presented to merchants as a service in order to eliminate the need for merchants to perform householding analysis on their own data.
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1. A method for providing householding information to merchants, the method comprising:
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receiving a request to provide householding indicia from a merchant; extracting customer loyalty identification indicia specific to the merchant and any householding indicia associated with such customer loyalty identification indicia from a database including customer loyalty identification indicia for a plurality of merchants; and transmitting the extracted customer loyalty identification indicia and associated householding indicia to the merchant in a format indicating the association between the customer loyalty identification indicia and the associated householding indicia, wherein at least two of the customer loyalty identification indicia share the same associated householding indicia. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7)
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8. A system for providing householding indicia to merchants, the system comprising:
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a database component for storing customer loyalty identification indicia specific to merchants and associated householding indicia; and a network server component coupled to the database component for receiving requests from merchants to provide householding indicia. - View Dependent Claims (9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14)
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15. A method for providing householding information to a plurality of merchants, the method comprising:
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receiving a request to provide householding indicia from a merchant; extracting customer loyalty identification indicia, if any, specific to the merchant from each electronic wallet of a plurality of electronic wallets; extracting householding indicia, if any, from each electronic wallet containing customer loyalty identification indicia specific to the merchant; generating a list in a format acceptable to the merchant that links the extracted customer loyalty identification indicia to householding indicia extracted from the same electronic wallet; transmitting the list to the merchant. - View Dependent Claims (16, 17, 18, 19, 20)
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21. A computer-readable carrier containing one or more programming instructions for performing a method of providing householding information to a plurality of merchants, the method comprising:
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receiving a request to provide householding indicia from a merchant; extracting customer loyalty identification indicia, if any, specific to the merchant from each electronic wallet of a plurality of electronic wallets; extracting householding indicia, if any, from each electronic wallet containing customer loyalty identification indicia specific to the merchant; generating a list in a format acceptable to the merchant that links the extracted customer loyalty identification indicia to householding indicia extracted from the same electronic wallet; transmitting the list to the merchant. - View Dependent Claims (22, 23, 24, 25, 26)
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