SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR SINGLE COUPON KEY CODE REDEMPTION OF MULTIPLE COUPONS

• US 20120066048A1
• Filed: 08/12/2011
• Published: 03/15/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 08/12/2010
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Kenneth Wyatt Richards, Steven B. Foust, Vickie M. Johnson
• Original Assignee: Kenneth Wyatt Richards, Steven B. Foust, Vickie M. Johnson
• Inventors: Foust, Steven B., Richards, Kenneth Wyatt, Johnson, Vickie M.
• Application Number:
  US13/209,230
• Publication Number:
  US 20120066048A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 705/14.26
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 20/387 Payment using discounts or coupons relating to marketing G06Q30/02
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/02 Marketing; Price estimation or determination; Fundraising
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0225 Avoiding frauds

Abstract

A system and method for conveying coupons using an electronic device comprises receiving with a computer, a keyword transmitted from the electronic device, associating, with a computer, the keyword with a Key Code, wherein the Key Code is associated with the one or more coupons, and transmitting from the computer to the electronic device, a single electronic message including the Key Code and one or more coupons, each of the one or more coupons including one or more images.

Claims

1. A device for facilitating a conveyance of coupons, comprising:

a keyword that is enterable to an electronic device and is unique to a merchant,

the keyword being associated with one or more coupons receivable by the electronic device after entry of the keyword into the electronic device.

2. The device of claim 1, further comprising a printed media including the keyword disposed thereon.

3. The device of claim 1, further comprising additional keywords,

wherein each of the additional keywords is enterable to the electronic device and is unique to a merchant,

each of the additional keywords being associated with one or more additional coupons receivable by the electronic device.

4. A method for conveying coupons using the device of claim 1, comprising:

receiving with a computer, the keyword transmitted from the electronic device;

associating, with the computer, the keyword with a Key Code, wherein the Key Code is associated with one or more coupons; and

transmitting from the computer to the electronic device, an electronic message including the Key Code.

5. The method of claim 4, wherein the electronic message is a single electronic message.

6. The method of claim 5, wherein the single electronic message includes the one or more coupons, each of the one or more coupons including one or more images.

7. The method of claim 4, further comprising:

displaying at least one of the coupons on a display of the electronic device that is associated with the Key Code transmitted from the computer to the electronic device.

8. The method of claim 7, wherein at least one of the coupons displayed on a display of the electronic device includes an image.

9. A device to facilitate a conveyance of coupons, comprising:

a Key Code configured to be associated with multiple coupons;

the Key Code is readable by a scanner; and

the multiple coupons are redeemable after scanning the Key Code.

10. The device of claim 9, wherein the Key Code is disposed on printed media.

11. The device of claim 9, further comprising a plurality of Key Codes.

12. The device of claim 11, wherein the plurality of Key Codes can be chronologically ordered and time released.

13. The device of claim 11, wherein each of the plurality of Key Codes is unique.

14. The device of claim 9, further comprising an alphanumeric keyword that is enterable to a cellular apparatus and is unique to a merchant, the keyword is associated with multiple coupons, which are retrievable by the cellular apparatus after entry of the keyword.

15. The device of claim 9, wherein the multiple coupons are receivable by the cellular device by subscription or by download from the internet to the cellular device.

16. A method of Key Code conveyance to facilitate distribution of multiple coupons, comprising:

transmitting a Key Code, the Key Code being associated with multiple coupon offerings;

receiving the Key Code by way of the Key Code having been scanned; and

distributing multiple coupon offerings based on their association with the Key Code, so that the multiple coupon offering can be redeemed.

17. The method of claim 16, wherein the Key Code is disposed on printed media.

18. The method of claim 16, further comprising receiving a keyword from a cellular apparatus from which the keyword has been entered, the keyword being associated with multiple coupon.

19. The method of claim 18, wherein the keyword is unique to a specific merchant.

20. The method of claim 16, wherein the multiple coupon offerings are conveyable to the cellular apparatus by subscription or by download from the interne to the cellular apparatus.