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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 27, 2015
Filed:
Mar. 29, 2013
Visa International Service Association, San Francisco, CA (US);
Stacy Pourfallah, San Ramon, CA (US);
Karen Louise Cervenka, Woodside, CA (US);
Visa International Service Association, San Francisco, CA (US);
Abstract
The PORTABLE PRESCRIPTION PAYMENT DEVICE MANAGEMENT PLATFORM APPARATUSES, METHODS AND SYSTEMS ('PPD') provides a portable coupon payment device includes a substrate having surface with an image rendering thereon that corresponds to a free sample. The portable coupon payment device also has memory, in contact with the substrate, having data encoded therein including (i) an identifier for the free sample, (ii) a quantity for the free sample; (iii) a sponsor company account for a selling merchant to charge the cost of the free sample for payment to a selling merchant account to reimburse the selling merchant for the free sample; (iv) an image corresponding to the free sample; and (v) an identifier for a coupon provider donating the free sample to a consumer.