CUSTOMER REWARD SYSTEM

• US 20100287046A1
• Filed: 05/11/2010
• Published: 11/11/2010
• Est. Priority Date: 11/04/1999
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Aristocrat Technologies Australia PTY Limited (Aristocrat Leisure Limited)
• Original Assignee: Aristocrat Technologies Australia PTY Limited (Aristocrat Leisure Limited)
• Inventors: Barnes, Paul, Bennett, Nicholas Luke
• Application Number:
  US12/777,870
• Publication Number:
  US 20100287046A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 705/14.31
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/02 Marketing; Price estimation or determination; Fundraising
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0207 Discounts or incentives, e.g. coupons or rebates
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0226 Incentive systems for frequent usage, e.g. frequent flyer miles programs or point systems
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0231 Awarding of a frequent usage incentive independent of the monetary value of a good or service purchased, or distance travelled
• CPC Class Codes: G07G 1/0036 Checkout procedures

Abstract

A customer reward system includes at least one activity monitoring device for monitoring trading activity. A processor is associated with the, or each, activity monitoring device for receiving data from said activity monitoring device, for comparing the data with a predetermined trigger condition, the trigger condition being selected from a particular set of conditions, and, when the data and the predetermined trigger condition coincide, generating an output signal indicative of a customer reward.

Claims

1. A customer reward system, comprising

an activity monitor to monitor each customer transaction of a plurality of transactions, and to supply data indicative of each customer transaction;

a processor to receive data from said activity monitor that is indicative of each customer transaction, and to generate an output signal indicative of a reward granted to a customer in response to (a) determining that the plurality of customer transaction collectively satisfy an initiating condition associated with the reward, and (b) determining that a customer transaction of the customer satisfies a trigger condition associated with the reward; and

a display to display data of each customer transaction, the initiating condition, and the trigger condition.

2. The system of claim 1, wherein the processor is configured to determine that the trigger condition is satisfied when a number associated with the customer transaction of the customer coincides with a random number associated with the reward.

3. The system of claim 2, wherein the number associated with the customer transaction of the customer relates to a monetary amount of the customer transaction.

4. The system of claim 2, wherein the number associated with the customer transaction of the customer relates to a quantity of goods vended by the transaction.

5. The system of claim 1, wherein the activity monitor is one of a plurality of activity monitors connected to the processor so that customer transactions monitored by any one of the activity monitors affects generation of the output signal.

6. The system of claim 5, wherein activity monitors of the plurality of activity monitors are remote from each other and are networked with one another.