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Systems and methods to aggregate demand

  • US 9,031,860 B2
  • Filed: 10/07/2010
  • Issued: 05/12/2015
  • Est. Priority Date: 10/09/2009
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A computer-implemented method, comprising:

  • processing, in a computing apparatus, a plurality of transactions, each of the transactions being processed to make a payment from an issuer to an acquirer via a transaction handler in response to an account identifier of a customer, as issued by the issuer, being submitted by a merchant to the acquirer, the issuer to make the payment on behalf of the customer, the acquirer to receive the payment on behalf of the merchant;

    identifying, by the computing apparatus, a set of transactions within the plurality of transactions, wherein each transaction in the set is required to satisfy a predefined purchase requirement to be included in the set;

    determining, by the computing apparatus, whether the set of transactions of a plurality of customers satisfies an aggregated purchase requirement; and

    in response to a determination that the set of transactions of a plurality of customers satisfies the aggregated purchase requirement, providing by the computing apparatus a predefined benefit to the set of transactions.

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