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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 19, 2005
Filed:
Mar. 27, 2003
Applicants:
Paul Spaeth, Half Moon Bay, CA (US);
Douglas Jones, San Francisco, CA (US);
Adam Creighton, Round Rock, TX (US);
Inventors:
Paul Spaeth, Half Moon Bay, CA (US);
Douglas Jones, San Francisco, CA (US);
Adam Creighton, Round Rock, TX (US);
Assignee:
Visa U.S.A., Inc., San Francisco, CA (US);
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F003/00 ; G06F009/00 ; G06F017/00 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
A loyalty merchant component for facilitating communications amongst cardholder systems, merchant servers and a loyalty host for purposes of processing loyalty transactions is provided. The loyalty merchant component performs a number of interface functions between the loyalty host and the merchant systems and the cardholder systems.