SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR INFORMATION ACQUISITION AND SHARING
First Claim
1. A method for information acquisition and sharing in a customer loyalty environment comprising:
- receiving, by a scanner module, an information carrying card;
scanning the card;
extracting, via optical character recognition, one or more portions of information from the card;
correlating and storing the one or more portions of information in a database; and
one or more of determining an action and analyzing the one or more portions of information for customer loyalty tracking.
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Abstract
A business card scanner with software recognition or optical character recognition (or at a network server) that is placed within a business, retail space and/or point of customer contact and typically at the point of customer sale in the particular business. A business card can be requested from a customer by a customer service representative within a business. A free standing automated kiosk, interactive screen, or stand-alone automated inquiry could also request a business card from anyone in the vicinity via inquiry. The configuration of the business card scanner that resides in a kiosk model could be stand alone or be part of a larger modality/device already within a particular business or used in conjunction with other devices in the same space. The inquiry is any type of messaging/communication that results in a business card being inserted by a customer.
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26 Claims
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1. A method for information acquisition and sharing in a customer loyalty environment comprising:
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receiving, by a scanner module, an information carrying card; scanning the card; extracting, via optical character recognition, one or more portions of information from the card; correlating and storing the one or more portions of information in a database; and one or more of determining an action and analyzing the one or more portions of information for customer loyalty tracking. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 23, 25)
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12. A system for information acquisition and sharing in a customer loyalty environment comprising:
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receiving, by a scanner module, an information carrying card; scanning the card; extracting, via optical character recognition, one or more portions of information from the card; correlating and storing the one or more portions of information in a database; and
one or more of determining an action and analyzing the one or more portions of information for customer loyalty tracking. - View Dependent Claims (22, 24, 26)
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