SYSTEM FOR ENROLLMENT OF CUSTOMERS INTO COMPANY LOYALTY PROGRAMS

• US 20150025955A1
• Filed: 07/16/2013
• Published: 01/22/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 07/16/2013
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Anthony Douglas Deleon
• Original Assignee: Anthony Douglas Deleon
• Inventors: deLeon, Anthony Douglas
• Application Number:
  US13/943,519
• Publication Number:
  US 20150025955A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 705/14.27
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0226 Incentive systems for frequent usage, e.g. frequent flyer miles programs or point systems

Abstract

Enrollment into a customer loyalty program may be performed on the spot by using a mobile computing device and a software application that receives a person'"'"'s information and generates a membership account. The information may be extracted from, for example, a driver'"'"'s license and the software application may associate the information with the member and may issue a membership card to the person without the person having to leave their present location.

Claims

1. A computer program product for enrolling customers into a company loyalty program, the computer program product comprising a non-transitory computer readable storage medium having program code embodied therewith, the program code readable/executable by a processing unit to:

receive in a mobile computing device, a person'"'"'s identification information from a driver'"'"'s license; and

create, by the processing unit, a member account in the company loyalty program including the received information.

2. The computer program product of claim 1, the program code being readable/executable by the processing unit to read the person'"'"'s identification information from the driver'"'"'s license.

3. The computer program product of claim 2, wherein the person'"'"'s identification information is read from a swipe of the driver'"'"'s license through a card reader.

4. The computer program product of claim 2, wherein the person'"'"'s identification information is read from a scan of the driver'"'"'s license.

5. A system for enrolling a person into a company loyalty program, comprising:

a server;

data storage in the server including member accounts in the customer loyalty program; and

a mobile computing device configured to;

receive identification information from a driver'"'"'s license,

determine whether the person is a member of the customer loyalty program based on the received identification information, and

associate the received identification information with a membership card corresponding to the customer loyalty program.

6. The system of claim 5, including a card reader coupled to the mobile computing device configured to read data stored on the driver'"'"'s license.

7. The system of claim 5, wherein the mobile computing device is a mobile phone or a tablet.

8. The system of claim 5, wherein the mobile computing device is configured to photograph the person and send the photograph to a printer for printing onto the membership card.

9. The system of claim 5, wherein:

the server is configured to indicate to the mobile computing device that the person is not a member of the customer loyalty program, and

the mobile computing device is configured to create a member account for the person in response to receiving the indication from the server.

10. The system of claim 5, wherein the mobile computing device is configured to associate the received identification information with a pre-printed membership card while off-line from the server.