Promotions system and method
First Claim
1. A promotional system including a point-of-sales terminal for a vendor, said terminal being configured to:
- i) access sales data representing previous sales transactions of a customer of said vendor with different merchants;
ii) generate, based on said sales data, relationship data representing one or more attributes of said merchants;
iii) access configuration data including data representing one or more criteria for providing one or more promotions of one or more of said merchants to said customer based on said attributes;
iv) select, based on said relationship data and said configuration data, one or more of said merchants with at least one of said attributes that satisfy said criteria;
v) access promotions data representing said one or more promotions for said selected merchants; and
vi) generate, based on said promotions data, a record of said one or more promotions for said customer.
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Abstract
A promotional system and method for point-of-sales terminals for a vendor, that performs steps including: i) accessing sales data representing previous sales transactions of a customer of the vendor with different merchants; ii) generating, based on said sales data, relationship data representing one or more attributes of said merchants; iii) accessing configuration data including data representing one or more criteria for providing one or more promotions of one or more of said merchants to said customer based on the value of said attributes; iv) selecting, based on said relationship data and said configuration data, one or more of said merchants with at least one of said attributes that satisfy said parameters; v) accessing promotions data representing said one or more promotions for said selected merchants; and vi) generating, based on said promotions data, a record of said one or more promotions for said customer.
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36 Claims
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1. A promotional system including a point-of-sales terminal for a vendor, said terminal being configured to:
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i) access sales data representing previous sales transactions of a customer of said vendor with different merchants;
ii) generate, based on said sales data, relationship data representing one or more attributes of said merchants;
iii) access configuration data including data representing one or more criteria for providing one or more promotions of one or more of said merchants to said customer based on said attributes;
iv) select, based on said relationship data and said configuration data, one or more of said merchants with at least one of said attributes that satisfy said criteria;
v) access promotions data representing said one or more promotions for said selected merchants; and
vi) generate, based on said promotions data, a record of said one or more promotions for said customer. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17)
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18. A promotional method including:
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i) accessing sales data representing previous sales transactions of a vendor'"'"'s customer with different merchants;
ii) generating, based on said sales data, relationship data representing one or more attributes of said merchants;
iii) accessing configuration data including data representing one or more criteria for providing one or more promotions of one or more of said merchants to said customer based on said attributes;
iv) selecting, based on said relationship data and said configuration data, one or more of said merchants with at least one of said attributes that satisfy said criteria;
v) accessing promotions data representing said one or more promotions for said selected merchants; and
vi) generating, based on said promotions data, a record of said one or more promotions for said customer. - View Dependent Claims (19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34, 35, 36)
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