Method of automatically placing discount offers into a private folder of a consumer
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Abstract
Disclosed is a process by which merchants are able to provide discount offers, such as coupons, incentives, or tokens to consumers. Discount offers are arranged on a web site (or delivered other wise by RF) by category and users are able to pick and choose the offers in which in which they are interested for storage in a personal coupon folder. Merchants are able to bid for placement within each category and are also able to slot their offers in specific users'"'"' personal folders. Discount offers are wirelessly delivered from the users'"'"' personal folders to a wireless receiving device, where they can be transferred to a display device for direct scanning at the point-of-sale. The display device according to this invention has the capability to communicate directly with the receiving device and to display the coupon UPCs via a scannable media.
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35 Claims
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1-26. -26. (canceled)
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27. A method of posting and redeeming discount offers comprising the steps of:
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providing a first location accessible to merchants for the posting of discount offers; providing a second location accessible to consumers for the selection of discount offers from among those posted by said merchants, wherein the first and second locations are one or more websites accessible over a communications network; providing, to each of said consumers, a private folder in which to store one or more of said selected discount offers; and allowing said merchants to automatically place discount offers directly into the private folders of said consumers based on discount offers previously redeemed by said consumer. - View Dependent Claims (28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34, 35)
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