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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 12, 2024
Filed:
Mar. 13, 2023
Payment card transaction systems and methods with instant geographic merchant incentive notification
Mastercard International Incorporated, Purchase, NY (US);
Rick Unnerstall, O'Fallon, MO (US);
MASTERCARD INTERNATIONAL INCORPORATED, Purchase, NY (US);
Abstract
An electronic payment card processing system and method includes a host computing device having at least one processor in communication with a memory device and a multi-party payment processing network for processing payment-by-card transactions. The host computing device is configured to identify a first payment-by-card transaction between an enrolled cardholder and a first enrolled merchant that is processed over the multi-party payment processing network, identify at least one affiliated merchant of the first enrolled merchant; and send an affiliate incentive offer for the at least one affiliated merchant to the enrolled cardholder.