System and method of providing purchase receipts
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1. A method of providing a reduced information customer receipt for the purchase of a product or service during a purchase transaction, comprising the steps of:
- (a) assigning at the point-of-sale of a purchase transaction, a unique transaction identifier for the transaction;
(b) providing at the point of sale a purchase receipt to a purchaser, the purchase receipt including the unique transaction identifier but not containing an identification of the purchased goods or services; and
(c) storing as a data record, the unique transaction identifier and an identification of the purchased goods or services associated with the unique transaction for subsequent access to the purchaser.
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Abstract
A system and method for providing a purchaser a purchase transaction receipt having a reduced set of information including a transaction identification number, where the transaction identification number can be used by the purchaser to access rebate information and the purchase transaction related information.
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1. A method of providing a reduced information customer receipt for the purchase of a product or service during a purchase transaction, comprising the steps of:
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(a) assigning at the point-of-sale of a purchase transaction, a unique transaction identifier for the transaction; (b) providing at the point of sale a purchase receipt to a purchaser, the purchase receipt including the unique transaction identifier but not containing an identification of the purchased goods or services; and (c) storing as a data record, the unique transaction identifier and an identification of the purchased goods or services associated with the unique transaction for subsequent access to the purchaser. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6)
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7. A method of providing purchase information for a purchase transaction in which a purchaser has purchased one or more products or services, comprising the steps of:
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(a) receiving at a processing site from a marketing entity the identification of at least a portion of the products or services purchased in a purchase transaction, and a unique transaction identifier, such identifier being assigned at the point-of-sale of a purchase transaction; (b) receiving at the processing site from the purchaser subsequent to the completion of the purchase transaction, a unique transaction identifier associated with a purchase transaction; (c) using at the processing site, the unique transaction identifier provided by the purchaser to access the information provided by the marketing entity to ascertain the identification of the products and services associated with the transaction identifier provided by the purchaser; (d) providing to the purchaser information related to the identified products or services as a function of the identified products and services. - View Dependent Claims (8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19)
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20. A computerized system for providing purchase transaction information to a purchaser who, during a sales transaction, had purchased one or more products or services, and in which such purchaser had been given a transaction identifier for identifying such transaction but has not been provided with a receipt identifying the purchase products or services at the point of sale;
- said system comprising;
at least one data input port for receiving; (a) a plurality of purchase data records, each purchase data record pertaining to a sales transaction, wherein each purchase data record (i) includes a transaction code for identifying the sales transaction and (ii) identifies the products or services purchased in connection with such transaction; and (b) a purchaser request containing a transaction code assigned at the point of sale; a memory communicating with said at least one data input port for storing as a stored data record each transaction code and the identity of all products or services associated with such transaction code; a processor communicating with said at least one data input port and said memory and which is programmed, in response to receiving a purchaser request; (i) to seek to match the transaction code submitted in the purchaser request with a transaction code of a stored data record; and (ii) upon successfully matching a transaction code submitted with a purchaser request with a transaction code stored in a stored data record, to provide the identification of the products and services associated with the matched transaction code to the purchaser. - View Dependent Claims (21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26)
- said system comprising;
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