METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR FACILITATING A TRANSACTION
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Abstract
Provided is a system for facilitating a transaction between at least one merchant and at least one consumer. The system includes at least one transaction portal located in a network environment, where the at least one transaction portal associated with at least one consumer affinity. The consumer affinity is an entity, a cause, an affiliation, an organization, a concept, a benefit, an association and/or a sponsor or any combination thereof. The system further includes a communication system for facilitating the transmission of data between the transaction portal, the at least one merchant, the at least one consumer, an entity associated with the consumer affinity or any combination thereof. Also provided is a matching system, a method for facilitating a transaction between at least one merchant and at least one consumer and a method for facilitating a credit-based transaction between at least one merchant and at least one consumer,
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21 Claims
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1. (canceled)
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2. A system for facilitating transactions between consumers and merchants, the system comprising:
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a transaction portal disposed in data communication on a network, the portal including means for performing a method comprising; determining an identity of a consumer logged onto the portal; retrieving information about the consumer, based on the identity, from a database, the information including an affinity of the consumer; and generating an interactive web page specifically tailored to the consumer on the portal, based on the affinity. - View Dependent Claims (3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9)
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10. A method for facilitating transactions between consumers and merchants, the method comprising:
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logging a consumer onto a network-enabled kiosk or other computing device having a display; retrieving an affinity of the consumer; generating a transaction portal specifically tailored to the consumer, based at least on the affinity; and displaying the transaction portal on the display of the kiosk. - View Dependent Claims (11, 12, 13, 14)
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15. A method for facilitating transactions between consumers and merchants, the method comprising:
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receiving an identifier of a consumer; communicating the identifier to a service provider; receiving from the service provider a transaction portal specifically tailored to the consumer to include an affinity of the consumer; and displaying the portal to the consumer on a network-enabled kiosk. - View Dependent Claims (16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21)
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