System and method for chopping up and processing gift cards
AssigneeGiftCodes.com, LLC
InventorJason Wolfe
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Abstract
Systems, methods, and computer-readable media for chopping up a gift card/code into smaller multiple gift card/codes. The system receives a request from a user to convert a closed-loop card/code having a value amount into two different closed-loop cards/codes and divides (or “chops up”) the closed-loop card/code into a first closed-loop card/code having a first value amount and a second closed-loop card/code having a second value amount, wherein the first value amount and the second value amount add up to no more than the value amount. The system offers the first closed-loop card/code and the second closed-loop card/code to one of the user and a third party.
Claims20
A method comprising:
- presenting an owner of a first prepaid gift with an offer to purchase a first prepaid gift account associated with the first prepaid gift for an offer amount;
- based on an acceptance of the offer:
- generating, via a secure gateway, a second prepaid gift account for a second prepaid gift;
- loading, via the secure gateway, the second prepaid gift account with funds;
- and
- offering the second prepaid gift account for sale as a new prepaid gift to a person other than the owner.
A system comprising:
- a processor;
- a secure gateway operating on the system;
- and
- a non-transitory memory storing instructions which, when executed by the processor, cause the processor to perform a method comprising:
- presenting an owner of a first prepaid gift with an offer to purchase a first prepaid gift account associated with the first prepaid gift for an offer amount;
- based on an acceptance of the offer:
- generating, via the secure gateway, a second prepaid gift account for a second prepaid gift;
- loading, via the secure gateway, the second prepaid gift account with funds;
- and
- offering the second prepaid gift account for sale as a new prepaid gift to a person other than the owner.
A non-transitory computer readable medium having stored therein instructions which, when executed by a processor, cause the processor to perform a method comprising:
- presenting an owner of a first prepaid gift with an offer to purchase a first prepaid gift account associated with the first prepaid gift for an offer amount;
- based on an acceptance of the offer:
- generating, via a secure gateway, a second prepaid gift account for a second prepaid gift;
- loading, via the secure gateway, the second prepaid gift account with funds;
- and
- offering the second prepaid gift account for sale as a new prepaid gift to a person other than the owner.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.