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7024373 |
Auto purchase system and method
The inventive communications system dedicated to the sale of first items in conjunction with the establishment of a second, preferably long-term, commercial relationship between the consumer of the...
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7024395 |
Method and system for secure credit card transactions
A customer making a credit card transaction inserts their smart card into a card reader attached to the merchant's system. The card reader activates the customer's card and passes certain merchant...
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7024374 |
Targeted marketing and purchase behavior monitoring system
A system for presenting customized special offers to customers, the special offers including targeted offers to a customer selected from a plurality of customers, and for collecting purchasing...
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7020623 |
Method of inducing a purchaser to visit a retail outlet at a remote location and of inducing a retail outlet to act as such a remote location
A method is defined for inducing a purchaser to visit a store at a remote location subsequent to the purchase of a product from a supplier to pick up or to return the product. This is done by...
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7020633 |
Method and system for merchant processing of purchase card transactions with expanded card type acceptance
Systems and methods for merchant processing of purchase card transactions with expanded card type acceptance are provided. For each merchant, a record is maintained of each card type that the...
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7020625 |
Method of using product pickup to create direct marketing opportunities
A method is defined to create marketing opportunities with the knowledge that an individual will be visiting a retail outlet to pick up a product.
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7016861 |
Dispensing apparatus for dispensing tickets in reponse to an event
A ticket dispensing apparatus 30 for dispensing tickets in response to an event comprising a vertically extending housing or structure 44 serving to accommodate advertising displays and a lower...
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7016860 |
Honoring of electronic coupons
An electronic coupon, an electronic commerce system, and a method for the honoring of electronic coupons utilizing computing equipment are disclosed. In the method, an issuing party issues an...
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7016862 |
Method for enhancing security and providing assistance in the operation of a self-service checkout terminal
A method of providing security during operation of a self-service checkout terminal includes the step of creating a transaction table which includes a plurality of records corresponding...
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7016854 |
Loyalty link method and apparatus with audio performance for integrating customer information with dealer management information
A customer data capture system integrated with a dealership data management system allows customer and vehicle maintenance data to be exchanged between a kiosk on the floor of the dealership and...
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7016681 |
Mobile communication device and data communication method using the same
A mobile communication device that flexibly supports various services which utilize both Internet communications and short-distance wireless communications. An instruction data receiving section...
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7013286 |
Generation, distribution, storage, redemption, validation and clearing of electronic coupons
A method and system generates, distributes, stores, redeems, validates and clears electronic manufacturer coupons and electronic store coupons. A coupon mint generates unforgable blank digital...
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7008320 |
Gaming machine with receipt generation capabilities
The invention comprises a gaming machine adapted to print receipts. In one embodiment, the gaming machine is associated with a gaming system including a player tracking or reward system. The gaming...
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7010509 |
System and method for funding an account and consolidating financial relationships
The present invention is a method and system for providing for investments to be made on behalf of an individual by a financial institution based on the individual's overall relationship to the...
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7010498 |
Personal product locator on store-owned shopping aid
A method for providing a location of products to a customer in a retail environment. A product locator unit is attached to a shopping aid utilized within the retail environment. The product locator...
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7008321 |
Method and system for issuing and using gaming machine receipts
The invention comprises a gaming system including at least one gaming machine arranged to accept and print receipts. In one embodiment of a method, a player playing a gaming machine is issued a...
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7010500 |
On-line subscription method
A system and a method of providing on-line subscription services from a subscription server to a user of a mobile terminal through the Internet. The subscription server receives from the mobile...
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7006979 |
Methods and systems for creating models for marketing campaigns
Methods and systems for increasing efficiency of a marketing campaign are disclosed. The method uses a system including a database containing customer demographic data and includes the steps of...
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7006983 |
Method and system for processing a rebate
A point of sale (POS) rebate method and system allows a consumer purchasing a product having an associated manufacturer's mail-in rebate to redeem the rebate at the POS. Products that have...
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7007245 |
Product selection expert system
The invention includes a system for product selection, the system including: a CPU; a memory operatively connected to the CPU, the memory containing a program adapted to be executed by the CPU and...
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7006984 |
Electronically augmented multiplayer sporting game with virtual ball passed by infrared apparatus
A method and apparatus for conducting multi-player games in a wireless telecommunications system including a wireless telecommunications network which communicates using radio signals with a...
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7004398 |
Stored-value card with edible product
A stored-value card assembly including a stored-value card, an edible product, and a wrapper. The stored-value card defines a first generally planar surface and a second generally planar surface...
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7007074 |
Targeted advertisements using time-dependent key search terms
An advertisement generation system presents a time-dependent advertisement to a user based upon to a search term of a search query during a period of time via a communication network The system...
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7003478 |
Advertising method using software products
An advertising method using software products in which at least one advertisement is inserted so that the software products can be distributed for free or at a low cost. The advertising method...
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7003789 |
Television commerce payments
A method, system, and computer readable code for extending payment protocols to include information related to the television context of commercial activity between a consumer using a television...
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7003734 |
Method and system for creating and displaying images including pop-up images on a visual display
A system and method for delivering advertising messages to a person accessing a banner web site from a terminal having a display upon which the content of the web site is visually perceived....
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7003479 |
Systems and methods for ordering and distributing incentive messages
Systems and methods associated with ordering, producing and/or distributing incentive messages. Systems can include means for receiving requests for incentive messages, for receiving payment for...
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6999938 |
Automated reply generation direct marketing system
A system for automatically preparing customized replies in response to communications from a plurality of clients. To facilitate automation and tracking, each original communication to the client...
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6999190 |
Printing cost charging system
A printing system for performing printing of printing information corresponding to provided information provided by the Internet, includes: an information sending apparatus operable to provide the...
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6996560 |
Method, system, and device for typing customers/prospects
Exemplary embodiments provide a computer-assisted method for typing customers/prospects, including the activities of: refining a survey via bestfit clustering; refining survey results via...
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6996534 |
Member registration system
A customer computer receives, through radio communication, from a computer of a product or service provider (a provider), items of personal information necessary for member registration. Then, the...
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6993498 |
Point-of-sale server and method
A method for use in marketing includes detecting, at the point-of-sale, a plurality of Uniform Product Codes associated with respective items purchased by a customer. The method also includes...
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6993494 |
Resource price management incorporating indirect value
A method and system of managing value from a resource such as hotel rooms by taking into account indirect value, such as gaming value, in determining recommended bid prices. Observed and/or...
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6993130 |
Methods and apparatus for mediametric data cryptoprocessing
A data storage device having mediametric properties used as a source of data for cryptoprocessing keys. A memory array is formed by a plurality of memory cells, each cell containing a level of...
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6993497 |
Integrated, interactive telephone and computer network communications system
A method comprising the steps of: receiving via internet a time, a date and a telephone number for a reminder telephone call (such as a wakeup call); storing in a database the time, date and...
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6993496 |
Method and system for determining market demand based on consumer contributions
The present invention provides a method and a system to determine a market need before any monies are spent to produce and commercialize an artist. A method and system for determining the market...
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6990630 |
TECHNIQUE FOR IMPLEMENTING BROWSER-INITIATED USER-TRANSPARENT NETWORK-DISTRIBUTED ADVERTISING AND FOR INTERSTITIALLY DISPLAYING AN ADVERTISEMENT, SO DISTRIBUTED, THROUGH A WEB BROWSER IN RESPONSE TO A USER CLICK-STREAM
A technique for implementing in a networked client-server environment, e.g., the Internet, network-distributed advertising in which advertisements are downloaded, from an advertising server to a...
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6990460 |
Dynamic demand management
A system, method, and apparatus for allocating demand for a number of time periods is presented herein. The business volume is monitored during each time period, and wherein the business volume is...
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6990473 |
Information management system
One or a plurality of commodities are placed in a commodity exhibition shelf ( 8 ). Information peculiar to any commodity is read using an input device ( 2 ) under the control of a control device (...
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6990462 |
Inventory management
The inventory management of items, such as banner ads to be displayed on web sites, is disclosed. In one embodiment, a method constructs a number of item slot groups and a number of meta item slot...
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6988077 |
System and method for offering multiple products
A system and method for a supplier to offer multiple new products to a first person and multiple pre-owned products to a second person are disclosed. The invention includes a method wherein the...
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6988085 |
System and method for real-time electronic inquiry, delivery, and reporting of credit information
A system and method for providing electronic inquiry, delivery, and reporting of personal credit information to and from credit bureaus, preferably via the Internet. In the preferred embodiment,...
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6986100 |
Normalized rotation on a web site of display items from multiple sources
A method for balancing the allocation of available display slots on a Web page among a plurality of different sources of display items comprises (a) defining for each source a set of candidate...
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6985452 |
Wireless system for broadcasting, receiving, storing and selectively printing coupons and the like in a retail environment
A system is provided for distributing in a retail environment one or more packets of information selected from the group consisting of redeemable coupons, forms, messages, tickets, warnings and...
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6985879 |
Systems and methods for facilitating group rewards
In accordance with at least one embodiment of the present invention a retailer may receive a request from a group of customers for a reward the group desires to earn by making purchases at the...
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6985873 |
System and method for administering a brokerage rebate card program
A technique for administering a rebate program includes logic for generating rebate information based the purchase of goods and/or services using a card instrument. The technique further includes...
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6982802 |
Systems and methods for collecting printing device usage data
Systems and methods are described for collecting printing device data from a printing system. The printing device data is collected from a host computer connected to the printing device, printing...
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6983261 |
System and method for causing multiple parties to be paid from a single credit card transaction
A point of sale credit card payment system allowing multiple payments to be made to various payees from a single credit card transaction or any other form of electronic payment. Software, firmware,...
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6983311 |
Access to internet search capabilities
In accordance with the present invention, there is provided a client application for enabling access to an online service and displaying advertisements while the user is accessing the online...
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6980960 |
System and method for providing a fuel purchase incentive
A fuel purchase incentive is provided incident to the sale of a vehicle. With respect to the sale of an automobile, the incentive consists of a program price, for example a discount price or a...
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