Promotional carrier for promoting pharmaceutical prescription products
First Claim
1. A method of promoting one or more prescription pharmaceutical products comprising:
- a. securing one or more transferable stickers to a carrier where each sticker identifies at least one prescription pharmaceutical product;
b. providing a payment vehicle for paying at least a portion of the cost of one of the prescription pharmaceutical products identified by the stickers and wherein the payment vehicle forms a part of the carrier;
c. electronically associating in a database all of the prescription pharmaceutical products identified by the stickers with a number on the payment vehicle, wherein the database is associated with a central computing station;
d. after the payment vehicle is presented to the pharmacy, receiving electronically communicated information at the database indicating the number associated with the payment vehicle and the prescription pharmaceutical product identified by one of the stickers that has been transferred onto the payment vehicle;
e. comparing the number electronically received at the database with the prescription pharmaceutical product identified by the sticker on the payment vehicle;
f. electronically communicating to the pharmacy through the central computing station that the payment vehicle is valid and can be used to pay for at least a portion of the cost of the prescription pharmaceutical product identified by the sticker transferred onto the payment vehicle.
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Abstract
A prescription pharmaceutical promotional carrier is provided that is effective to promote a series of prescription drugs. The carrier includes first and second portions with the second portion being referred to as a payment vehicle and the first portion being utilized to identify the series of prescription drugs being promoted. In use, a preferred embodiment provides a series of stickers secured to the first portion of the carrier. Each sticker identifies or represents a prescription pharmaceutical product. A doctor may possess one or more of the carriers and may prescribe a prescription drug being promoted by the carrier. If so, the doctor can transfer a sticker identifying the prescription drug to the payment vehicle and separate the payment vehicle from the carrier. The separated payment vehicle is then given to the patient along with a prescription for the identified prescription drug and the patient presents the payment vehicle to a pharmacy where at least a portion of the costs of the prescription drug is paid by a party that sponsored the carrier.
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15 Claims
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1. A method of promoting one or more prescription pharmaceutical products comprising:
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a. securing one or more transferable stickers to a carrier where each sticker identifies at least one prescription pharmaceutical product; b. providing a payment vehicle for paying at least a portion of the cost of one of the prescription pharmaceutical products identified by the stickers and wherein the payment vehicle forms a part of the carrier; c. electronically associating in a database all of the prescription pharmaceutical products identified by the stickers with a number on the payment vehicle, wherein the database is associated with a central computing station; d. after the payment vehicle is presented to the pharmacy, receiving electronically communicated information at the database indicating the number associated with the payment vehicle and the prescription pharmaceutical product identified by one of the stickers that has been transferred onto the payment vehicle; e. comparing the number electronically received at the database with the prescription pharmaceutical product identified by the sticker on the payment vehicle; f. electronically communicating to the pharmacy through the central computing station that the payment vehicle is valid and can be used to pay for at least a portion of the cost of the prescription pharmaceutical product identified by the sticker transferred onto the payment vehicle. - View Dependent Claims (2, 12, 13, 14, 15)
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3. A method of promoting one or more prescription pharmaceutical products, comprising:
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d. identifying one or more prescription pharmaceutical products on a promotional carrier; e. providing at least one payment vehicle that forms a part of the carrier; f. uniquely identifying the payment vehicle with a payment vehicle identifier and electronically storing the identifier in a remote database associated with a central computing station; d. for each carrier, electronically linking in the database the payment vehicle identifier with the identified prescription products of the carrier such that the database reflects which prescription products are associated with each payment vehicle; e. receiving electronically communicated information at the database through the central computing station indicating that a pharmacy has received one of the payment vehicles and identifying the payment vehicle identifier associated with the payment vehicle and one of the identified prescription products; f. comparing the payment vehicle identifier to the identified prescription product in the database; g. wherein the payment vehicle is used to pay for at least a portion of the cost of the identified prescription product. - View Dependent Claims (4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11)
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