SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR PROVIDING LOCATION BASED COUPON-LESS OFFERS TO REGISTERED CARD MEMBERS
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Abstract
The system provides location based coupon-less offers based upon a location of a card member (CM). A location of a CM may be determined based upon one or more of a travel itinerary, a GPS signal, a proximity of a mobile communication device to a cellular base station, and/or a zip code. An offer from a merchant registered to provide coupon-less offers may be transmitted to a mobile communication device based upon the location. An offer, once accepted by a CM, may be matched to a record of charge associated with a transaction account held by the CM. A credit may be applied to the CM'"'"'s transaction account and a debit may be applied to a transaction account of the registered merchant. One or more offer categories and/or one or more offer category classes may be transmitted to the mobile communication device based upon the CM'"'"'s location.
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42 Claims
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21. A method comprising:
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determining, by a computer based system for providing location based offers, a dynamically changing location of an account affiliate associated with a transaction account, wherein the dynamically changing location is determined based on at least one of a travel itinerary associated with the transaction account and a location associated with a computing device associated with the transaction account; providing, by the computer based system, first notification instruction for a first offer for the account affiliate based upon the location; and associating, by the computer based system, the offer with the transaction account. - View Dependent Claims (22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34, 35, 36, 37, 38, 39, 40)
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41. A tangible computer-readable storage medium having computer-executable instructions stored thereon that, if executed by a computer based system for providing location based offers, causes the computer based system to perform a method comprising:
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determining, by the computer based system, a dynamically changing location of an account affiliate associated with a transaction account, wherein the dynamically changing location is determined based on at least one of a travel itinerary associated with the transaction account and a location associated with a computing device associated with the transaction account; providing, by the computer based system, notification instruction for an offer for the account affiliate based upon the location; and associating, by the computer based system, the offer with the transaction account.
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42. A system comprising:
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a network interface communicating with a memory; the memory communicating with a processor for providing location based offers; and the processor, when executing a computer program, performs operations comprising; determining, by processor, a dynamically changing location of an account affiliate associated with a transaction account, wherein the dynamically changing location is determined based on at least one of a travel itinerary associated with the transaction account and a location associated with a computing device associated with the transaction account; providing, by the processor, notification instruction for an offer for the account affiliate based upon the location; and associating, by the processor, the offer with the transaction account.
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