Delivery, organization, and redemption of virtual offers from the internet, interactive-TV, wireless devices and other electronic means
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1. A method of distributing promotional offers to subscribers of interactive television services, the method comprising:
- a) creating an enabled promotional offer for a product or service;
b) distributing the enabled promotional offer to the subscribers according to their established electronic contact addresses associated with their respective interactive television service, wherein the promotional offer can be electronically accepted by at least one of the subscribers without redeeming the offer;
c) upon electronic acceptance of the enabled promotional offer, placing the unredeemed accepted promotional offer in a coupon database associated with the accepting subscriber; and
d) establishing or maintaining an association of the coupon database with the accepting subscriber'"'"'s payment system such that presentment of the subscriber'"'"'s payment system for payment for the product or service redeems the promotional offer.
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Abstract
Disclosed are methods and systems for redeeming virtual coupons by associating the coupons with consumers'"'"' credit cards for redemption. In disclosed methods, coupon databases are associated with consumers and associated with the consumers'"'"' credit cards. Coupon offers are stored in the coupon databases and are redeemed by consumers by the use of the credit cards that are associated with the consumers'"'"' coupon databases.
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1. A method of distributing promotional offers to subscribers of interactive television services, the method comprising:
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a) creating an enabled promotional offer for a product or service; b) distributing the enabled promotional offer to the subscribers according to their established electronic contact addresses associated with their respective interactive television service, wherein the promotional offer can be electronically accepted by at least one of the subscribers without redeeming the offer; c) upon electronic acceptance of the enabled promotional offer, placing the unredeemed accepted promotional offer in a coupon database associated with the accepting subscriber; and d) establishing or maintaining an association of the coupon database with the accepting subscriber'"'"'s payment system such that presentment of the subscriber'"'"'s payment system for payment for the product or service redeems the promotional offer. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11)
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12. A method of distributing promotional offers to subscribers of interactive television services, the method comprising:
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a) creating an enabled promotional offer for a product or service; b) establishing a coupon database for each of the subscribers; c) registering a payment system for each of the subscribers wherein each payment system is associated with the corresponding subscriber'"'"'s interactive television account; d) distributing the enabled promotional offer to at least one of the subscribers according to their established electronic contact addresses associated with their respective interactive television service, wherein the promotional offer can be electronically accepted by the at least one of the subscribers without redeeming the offer once the at least one subscriber has registered his payment system; e) upon electronic acceptance of the enabled promotional offer, placing the unredeemed accepted promotional offer in the coupon database associated with the at least one accepting subscriber; and f) establishing or maintaining an association of the coupon database with the accepting subscriber'"'"'s payment system such that presentment of the subscriber'"'"'s payment system for payment for the product or service redeems the promotional offer. - View Dependent Claims (13, 14, 15, 16)
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17. A method of distributing promotional offers to subscribers of interactive television services, the method comprising:
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a) creating an enabled promotional offer for a product or service; b) establishing a coupon database for each of the subscribers; c) registering a payment system for each of the subscribers'"'"'; d) distributing the enabled promotional offer to at least one of the subscribers according to their established electronic contact addresses associated with their respective interactive television service, according to the subscribers'"'"' respective geographic locations and at times which according to subscribers'"'"' stored preferences associated with the subscribers'"'"' coupon databases, wherein the promotional offer can be electronically accepted by the at least one of the subscribers without redeeming the offer; e) upon electronic acceptance of the enabled promotional offer, placing the unredeemed accepted promotional offer in the coupon database associated with the at least one accepting subscriber; and f) establishing or maintaining an association of the coupon database with the accepting subscriber'"'"'s payment system such that presentment of the subscriber'"'"'s payment system for payment for the product or service redeems the promotional offer. - View Dependent Claims (18, 19, 20)
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