Bank card with sweepstakes feature
OwnerRichard Carnationinventor
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Abstract
A method of purchasing goods or services with use of a bank card. The bank card is issued to consumers as a means of identifying the consumers and for extending credit to the consumers for the purchase of goods or services. A database is established of those consumers which hold the bank cards and at least one consumer is chosen from the database as the recipient of a prize.
Claims8
In a method of purchasing goods or services with use of a bank card, said bank card being issued to consumers as a means of identifying the consumers and for extending credit to the consumers for the purchase of said goods or services, the improvement comprising establishing a database of said consumers and choosing at least one consumer from said database as a recipient of a prize whereby qualification for said prize is not dependent upon bank card usage.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.