CUSTOMER INCENTIVE SYSTEM BASED ON AN EXTERNAL LOTTERY DRAWING

• US 20100121698A1
• Filed: 01/25/2010
• Published: 05/13/2010
• Est. Priority Date: 08/15/2007
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Michael Luzbet
• Original Assignee: Michael Luzbet
• Inventors: Luzbet, Michael
• Application Number:
  US12/693,068
• Publication Number:
  US 20100121698A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 705/14.140
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/02 Marketing; Price estimation or determination; Fundraising
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0212 Chance discounts or incentives
• CPC Class Codes: G07F 17/32 for games, toys, sports, or amusements
• CPC Class Codes: G07F 17/3255 Incentive, loyalty and/or promotion schemes, e.g. comps, gaming associated with a purchase, gaming funded by advertisements
• CPC Class Codes: G07F 17/329 Regular and instant lottery, e.g. electronic scratch cards

Abstract

A method of providing customer incentives to a business wherein a buyer of real and/or personal property negotiates the price of the property with the seller, and upon reaching a satisfactory price, the seller shall provide the buyer with a series of numbers prior to transferring title in the property.

Claims

1. A method of providing customer incentives to a business comprising the following steps:

negotiating the sale price of property between a buyer and a seller;

providing the buyer with a series of characters prior to transferring title in the property wherein said series of numbers correspond to a lottery drawing;

providing said characters to buyer through a dispensing machine capable of interacting with the buyer; and

awarding the buyer title to the previously negotiated property if said series of characters match said corresponding, lottery drawing.

2. The method of claim 1 wherein said property is personal property.

3. The method of claim 1 wherein said property is real property.

4. The method of claim 1 wherein said characters are numbers.

5. The method of claim 1 further comprising the step of displaying the results of said corresponding, lottery drawing on an electronic display device.

6. The method of claim 1 wherein said lottery drawing is an independent or external lottery drawing.

7. The method of claim 1 further comprising the step of permitting the buyer to decline the purchase of said property if said series of characters do not match said corresponding, lottery drawing.