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US 2003/0120544 A1Published application
International incentive system
AssigneeSiemens Aktiengesellschaft
InventorsRalph Gritzbach, Rainer Kuth, Christoph Zindel
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Abstract
In an incentive system, i.e., a method for organizing and distributing tangible incentives, wherein concerns (incentive providers) grant activity-dependent or sales-dependent premiums to the subscribers in order to promote certain objectives of the concern, the reward system is organized on the basis of securities, particularly stocks.
Claims9
A method for organizing and distributing tangible incentives comprising the steps of:
- awarding incentive premiums, selected from the group consisting of activity-dependent premiums and sales-dependent premiums, to subscribers selected from the group consisting of employees of the incentive provider, customers of the incentive provider, and vendors to the incentive provider, based on a reward system;
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- organizing said reward system to award securities as said incentive premium.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.