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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.

Date of Patent:
Dec. 12, 2017

Filed:

Jul. 27, 2009
Applicants:

James Alan Vonderheide, La Canada, CA (US);

Rajasekaran Dhamodharan, Redwood City, CA (US);

Inventors:

James Alan VonDerheide, La Canada, CA (US);

Rajasekaran Dhamodharan, Redwood City, CA (US);

Assignee:

Visa U.S.A. Inc., San Francisco, CA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G01C 21/20 (2006.01); G01C 21/36 (2006.01); G06Q 10/02 (2012.01); G06Q 30/02 (2012.01); G06Q 30/06 (2012.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G01C 21/20 (2013.01); G01C 21/362 (2013.01); G06Q 10/02 (2013.01); G06Q 30/0222 (2013.01); G06Q 30/0226 (2013.01); G06Q 30/0238 (2013.01); G06Q 30/06 (2013.01);
Abstract

Successive offer communications are sent to an offer recipient. A first offer communication includes an offer of a merchant and the second offer communication includes an announcement about the offer. The first and second offer communications are each formatted to be rendered by respective communication device, such as a mobile phone of the offer recipient or a Point of Interaction (POI) terminal. The content of the offer communications may be tailored to the offer recipient based on the offer recipient's past transactions within a transaction processing system or a real time geographical location of the offer recipient.


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