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US 2004/0200897 A1Published application
Methods and systems for retail club membership authorization
OwnerRaymond S. Demereinventor
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Abstract
The present invention provides systems and methods for remote authorization of fuel dispensing and authorization or confirmation of participation in frequent shopper programs, club memberships, and the like. In one embodiment, identification documents may be used as membership cards for a retailer's membership or frequent shopper program. In another embodiment, an identification may be a membership card to gain access to a retailer.
Claims3
A method of validating a customer in a retail membership club, the method comprising:
- receiving a membership validation request, including identifying indicia, from a remote retail location, the identifying indicia being extracted from an identification document of a user by an identification document reader at the remote retail location;
- querying a remote database for validation of the customer;
- receiving an indication of membership validation from the database;
- and
- transmitting the indication to the remote retail location.
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