Sony Corporation

Sony Electronics Inc

Linghan Cai

Simon J Gibbs

Richter A Rafey

Keiji Shiotani

Rick Rafey

Jeffrey Dorn

William Abdo Rouady, Jr

Jacqueline L Neider

Jenny Dana Wirtschafter

Simon John De Lancey Gibbs

Rafey A Richter

Simone John De Lancey Gibbs

A system for issuing, redeeming and monitoring incentive offers generated in response to qualifying on-line and off-line non-purchase activities. For example, an electronic data card is used to store electronic coupons issued by web sites (i.e., on-line) and/or off-line locations. In one embodiment activity registration is performed by programming integrated with, or coupled to, a web browser. Off-line activity is registered by a kiosk at a merchant location that generates an incentive offer, or a token which is later converted to an incentive offer, in response to conditions determined at the kiosk (e.g., entered by the user, clerk, and so forth). A loyalty server operates to aggregate information about the offers for reporting purposes, and can be optionally required for determining qualification for an incentive offer, providing security codes for participating incentive issuers, providing qualification of offers prior to issuance, and validating stored offers prior to redemption.

System and method for issuing and redeeming incentives on electronic data cards

A system for and method of enabling people to share a common application context for media presentation and playback is described herein. The presentation results from input from a set of active participants where the input includes a set of media types such as music, artwork, visualizations, photographs and text messages. The participants use personal devices to couple to the system and utilize the application.

Shared home media platform to support multi-user control

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