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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 26, 2013
Filed:
Feb. 28, 2007
Applicant:
Gregory J. Mesaros, Westlake, OH (US);
Inventor:
Gregory J. Mesaros, Westlake, OH (US);
Assignee:
eWinWin, Inc., Tampa, FL (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06K 15/00 (2006.01); G06Q 30/00 (2012.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
A buying group discount system includes a universal discount card to provide discounts, rewards and/or offers to consumers participating in a buying group. Consumer purchases are aggregated with transactions of the entire buying group. Rewards and discounts are released to the buying group when the aggregated purchases satisfied criteria specified in a reward policy established by sellers. Furthermore, mechanisms are provided to enable the universal discount card to be positioned to provide contextual flash offers or advertisements.