REWARD PROGRAM MANAGEMENT SYSTEM AND METHOD

• US 20160260118A1
• Filed: 04/01/2016
• Published: 09/08/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 04/22/2009
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Irving Oil Terminals Operations, Inc.
• Original Assignee: Highlands Override Incorporated
• Inventors: Houlihan, Michael T., Contreras, Robert E., Barnicle, Kathryn A.
• Application Number:
  US15/088,585
• Publication Number:
  US 20160260118A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0215 Including financial accounts
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0227 Frequent usage incentive value reconciliation between diverse systems
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 50/06 Energy or water supply

Abstract

Reward program management system for managing multiple rewards earned through participation in multiple reward earning programs of different earn partners by a person, the person having multiple identifiers, comprising: a server accessible to earn partners receiving reward information including rewards earned by the person and one of the multiple identifiers; a database storing the rewards earned by the person and the identifier associated with each reward; the server providing the person with an interface to receive information from the person regarding at least two of the multiple identifiers to create a set of linked identifiers; a computer processor retrieving and totaling the rewards earned by the person stored in the database in association with all of the identifiers of the set of linked identifiers to create a total reward; the server, accessible to burn partners, providing information regarding the total reward upon receipt from a burn partner of one of the set of linked identifiers.

Claims

1. A reward program management system for managing a combination of a plurality of rewards earned by a person through participation in a plurality of reward earning programs of different earn partners, the person having a plurality of identifiers associated with the person, at least some of which being in respect of the plurality of reward earning programs, the system comprising:

at least one server accessible to earn partners via electronic communication over at least one network, the at least one server configured to receive reward information from earn partners, the reward information including, in respect of the person, at least a reward earned by the person and one of the plurality of identifiers associated with the person associated with the reward;

at least one computer-readable information storage medium in electronic communication with the at least one server, the at least one computer-readable information storage medium including at least one database storing at least a plurality of the rewards earned by the person and the identifier associated with each reward;

the at least one server accessible to the person via the at least one network and in electronic communication with the at least one computer-readable information storage medium, the at least one server configured to provide the person with an interface to receive information from the person regarding at least two of the plurality of identifiers associated with the person to create a set of linked identifiers associated with the person;

a computer processor in electronic communication with the at least one computer-readable information storage medium, for retrieving and totaling the rewards earned by the person stored in the at least one database in association with all of the identifiers of the set of linked identifiers, to create a total reward associated with the person, the at least one database storing at least the total reward associated with the person and at least one of the set of linked identifiers; and

the at least one server accessible to burn partners via the at least one network and in electronic communication with at least one computer-readable information storage medium, the at least one server configured to provide information regarding the total reward associated with the person upon receipt from a burn partner of the at least one of the set of linked identifiers.