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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 27, 2005
Filed:
Feb. 26, 2001
Ned Hoffman, Sebastopol, CA (US);
David Ferrin Pare, Jr., Berkeley, CA (US);
Jonathan Alexander Lee, Oakland, CA (US);
Philip Dean Lapsley, Newton, MA (US);
Ned Hoffman, Sebastopol, CA (US);
David Ferrin Pare, Jr., Berkeley, CA (US);
Jonathan Alexander Lee, Oakland, CA (US);
Philip Dean Lapsley, Newton, MA (US);
Indivos Corporation, San Francisco, CA (US);
Abstract
Disclosed is a system and method for processing tokenless electronic consumer rewards between a reward provider and a recipient using an electronic identicator comparator and at least one recipient biometric data. The process uses apparatus for creating an electronic registry of a reward provider's products or services each having a predetermined rewards value, the rewards being disbursed to recipients based upon the occurrence of predetermined criteria; recipient registration, wherein the recipient registers with the electronic identicator comparator at least one registration biometric sample, and recipient specific data; recipient identification, wherein the identicator comparator compares a recipient bid biometric sample with previously registered biometric samples for producing either a successful or failed identification of the recipient; and recipient rewards issuance, wherein the rewards provider issues rewards to the recipient. This method and system can process an electronic consumer rewards transaction without the recipient using any unique identification tokens.