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FREE SAMPLE ACCOUNT TRANSACTION PAYMENT CARD DISPENSING KIOSK

  • US 20110082739A1
  • Filed: 10/05/2009
  • Published: 04/07/2011
  • Est. Priority Date: 10/05/2009
  • Status: Abandoned Application
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1. For a payment processing network that includes a plurality of merchants and consumers engaging in a plurality of transactions on a plurality of respective consumer accounts that respective issuers issue to the consumers, each said transaction involving a free sample associated with a free sample account issued by an issuer, wherein the merchant submits the transaction to an acquirer for processing by a transaction handler who requests the issuer to obtain payment for the free sample given by the merchant to the consumer in the transaction from the free sample account, and wherein the issuer forwards the payment to the transaction handler who forwards the payment to the acquirer to reimburse the merchant for the free sample given in the transaction, a method of providing a free sample account transaction payment card to a user of a kiosk, the method comprising:

  • receiving, at an input device of a user interface of the kiosk, a selection a free sample from a database having a plurality of selectable said free samples each;

    being associated with a free sample account issued by an issuer to a sponsor financially responsible for the cost of providing the free sample to one said consumer, wherein;

    the free sample account is acceptable by one said merchant for payment in one said transaction in which the one said merchant tenders the free sample to the one said consumer;

    the cost of the free sample is to be debited from the free sample account and credited to a merchant account for the one said merchant to be reimbursed for tendering the free sample to the one said consumer; and

    the merchant account is issued by another said issuer to the one said merchant;

    retrieving, from the database, to memory in the kiosk;

    a rendering image corresponding to a rendering capability of the kiosk; and

    the free sample information including an identifier for;

    the free sample account;

    a quantifier for the fee sample; and

    at least one of a good and a service;

    writing, from the memory in the kiosk with a card writing device of the kiosk, the free sample information to a memory location in a free sample account transaction payment card stored within the kiosk; and

    rendering a hard copy of the rendering image on a surface of the free sample account transaction payment card.

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