Incentive program
AssigneeXcelerator Loyalty Group, Inc.
InventorsRobert Kerschbrock, Samuel Toumayan
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Abstract
An incentive program is described that rewards the participants of the program based on the actions of at least something other than the participants. An incentive program coordinator that can be an individual, a legally created entity, or other organization can run the incentive program. The incentive program coordinator can have business relations with the participating entities, a sponsor, other business entities, or some combination thereof. The participating entities can be individuals, legally created entities, or other organizations, as can the sponsor entity. The at least something other than the participants can be a sports team in one embodiment.
Claims104
A system comprising:
- a cardholder account;
- a currency card operable to debit the cardholder account;
- and
- a computerized incentive program system operable to determine rewards based on the performance of at least something other than the cardholder and further operable to deposit said rewards into the cardholder account.
A method comprising the steps of:
- operating an incentive program for use with a television program having one or more members;
- entering viewers of the television program as participants in the incentive program;
- providing the viewers the ability to select one or more of the members of the television program as a pick;
- and
- rewarding the viewers based on performance of the members of the television program.
A method comprising the steps of:
- operating an incentive program for use with a video game;
- entering players of the video game as participants in the incentive program;
- providing a selection of one or more at least something other than the participant to be chosen as one or more picks;
- and
- rewarding the players based on the performance of their chosen picks.
A method for providing incentives for customers of a commercial digital music company comprising the steps of:
- operating an incentive program that is associated with the commercial digital music company;
- entering the customers of the commercial digital music company as participants in the incentive program;
- providing a selection of picks of one or more at least something other than the participants of the customers of the digital music company;
- and
- rewarding the participants of the incentive program based on the performance of at least something other than the participants.
A method for providing incentives for customers of a beverage company comprising the steps of:
- operating an incentive program that is associated with the beverage company;
- entering the customers of the beverage company as participants in the incentive program;
- providing a selection of picks of one or more at least something other than the participants of the customers of the beverage company;
- rewarding the participant of the incentive program based on the performance of at least something other than the participants.
A method for polling comprising the steps of:
- operating an incentive program;
- entering participants in the incentive program;
- allowing the participants to pick at least something other than the participants as one or more picks;
- and
- tallying the selection of picks by the participants.
A method comprising the steps of:
- operating an incentive program that is associated with awards ceremonies;
- entering participants into the incentive program;
- providing the participants a variety of at least something other than the participants to choose from as one or more picks;
- and
- rewarding participants based on the performance of their chosen picks.
A method comprising:
- issuing a currency card associated with a plurality of incentive programs to a cardholder;
- providing one or more picks to the cardholder;
- the cardholder choosing at least one pick from at least one of the incentive programs;
- and
- rewarding the cardholder based upon the performance of their chosen picks.
A method comprising the steps of:
- operating an incentive program;
- entering participants in the incentive program;
- providing a selection of one or more at least some other than the participant to be chosen as one or more picks;
- and
- rewarding the participants based on the performance of their chosen picks.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.