US 2013/0097006 A1Published application

Electronic transaction system with entitlement and promotion engines

AssigneeLeisure Pass Group Limited

InventorsDarran Evans, Amanda Truman, Victor Leitch, Alasdair Macdonald, Ken McRobb, David Robb, Steven Saunders

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Abstract

A system for selling and administering the redemption of travel site access and other privileges to consumers has a computer connected to the Internet that pushes and pulls data to and from a database including site and privilege data, such as, description, cost, purchases, access code, privilege redemption and promotion data. The consumer may purchase access to sites and goods over the Internet and are provided with an access code which can be presented to the consumer in a variety of forms in accordance with the consumer's preference. In one embodiment, the code is sent to a mobile phone or computer. Optionally, the mobile device can communicate with a point of sale device to allow access to a given site. The mobile device may also be used to send promotions, such as discounts, to the consumer, which may be programmatically selected and sent based upon logistical, empirical, timing and marketing criteria. Point of sale devices and human representatives may facilitate non-technical consumer use by conducting selected functions, such as the sale and redemption of privileges and the communication of promotions.

Claims30

Dependent claims

A method for selling site-related privileges over the Internet to consumers through consumer's digital devices connected to the Internet, comprising:

(A) storing data pertaining to a plurality of sites and associated available privileges, including privilege description and cost data, in a database in a digital data storage device accessible to a computer connected to the Internet;
(B) programming the computer with a program that accesses the database and the Internet and is capable of performing steps (C) through (K) and (M) below;
(C) querying the consumer via a consumer interface presented on the Internet and available to the consumer's digital device connected to the Internet to view data concerning sites of interest and related privileges;
(D) retrieving data from the database related to privileges of interest to the consumer in response to consumer responses in step (C);
(E) presenting the data retrieved in step (D) to the consumer;
(F) querying the consumer to select privileges to purchase;
(G) in the event that the consumer elects to purchase a privilege, presenting payment options to the consumer and recording responsive payment option information provided by the consumer in the database;
(H) recording privilege purchase data pertaining to the privileges purchased by the consumer, in the database;
(I) developing access data through which the consumer may access purchased privileges and storing the access data in the database in association with the privilege purchase data pertaining to one or more purchased privileges;
(J) communicating the access data to the consumer to empower the consumer to redeem the purchased privileges;
(K) when the consumer chooses to redeem the privileges purchased, receiving access data from the consumer and retrieving privilege purchase data from the database that is associated with the access data;
(L) upon receiving valid access data, permitting the consumer to redeem purchased privileges by granting access to the privileges;
and
(M) recording redemption data in the database.

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A method for selling site-related privileges to consumers having access to a mobile communication device, comprising:

(A) storing data pertaining to a plurality of sites and associated available privileges, including privilege identification data, privilege cost data and promotional data, in a database in a digital data storage device accessible to a computer;
(B) invoking a program in the computer that accesses the database and that performs steps (D) through (J), below;
(C) querying a consumer to select privileges to purchase;
(D) in the event that the consumer elects to purchase a privilege, recording privilege purchase data pertaining to the privileges purchased by the consumer, in the database;
(E) developing access data through which the consumer may access purchased privileges and storing the access data in the database in association with the privilege purchase data;
(F) communicating the access data to the consumer to empower the consumer to redeem the purchased privileges;
(G) when the consumer chooses to redeem the privileges purchased, receiving access data from the consumer and retrieving privileges purchase data from the database that is associated with the access data;
(H) upon receiving valid access data, permitting the consumer to redeem purchased privileges by granting access to the privileges;
(I) recording redemption data in the database;
and
(J) communicating at least some portion of the promotional data to the consumer by sending the promotional data to the consumer's mobile communication device.

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A method for selling site-related privileges to consumers having access to a mobile communication device, comprising:

(A) storing data pertaining to a plurality of sites and associated available privileges, including privilege identification and cost data, in a database in a digital data storage device accessible to a computer;
(B) invoking a program in the computer that accesses the database and that performs steps (D) through (I), below;
(C) querying a consumer to select privileges to purchase;
(D) in the event that the consumer elects to purchase a privilege, recording privilege purchase data pertaining to the privilege purchased by the consumer, in the database;
(E) developing access data through which the consumer may access purchased privileges and storing the access data in the database in association with the privilege purchase data;
(F) communicating the access data to the consumer's mobile communication device to empower the consumer to redeem the purchased privileges;
(G) when the consumer chooses to redeem the privileges purchased, receiving access data from the consumer and retrieving privileges purchase data from the database that is associated with the access data;
(H) upon receiving valid access data, permitting the consumer to redeem purchased privileges by granting access to the privileges;
and
(I) recording redemption data in the database.

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A system for selling site-related privileges to consumers with access to a mobile communication device and to the Internet and subsequently administering the redemption of the privileges by the consumers, comprising:

a digital data storage device;
a database having a data structure capable of storing data pertaining to a plurality of sites and associated available privileges, including privilege description and cost data, the database also capable of storing data pertaining to privileges purchased by consumers, access data by which the consumers access purchased privileges, privilege redemption data and promotion data, all in digital form and stored in the data storage device;
and
a computer programmed with an entitlement engine, the computer being connected to the data storage device and capable of retrieving and writing data from and to the database under the control of the entitlement engine and of generating, storing and communicating access data through which the consumer may access privileges, the computer capable of being connected to the Internet to allow the exchange of data with consumers, wherein
the computer is programmed with (i) a consumer interface capable of presenting data from the database pertaining to available privileges and receiving data from the consumer pertaining to privilege purchases for storage in the database, (ii) a verification interface capable of receiving access data and communicating access to purchased privileges granted by the entitlement engine, and (iii) a promotion engine capable of retrieving promotion data from the database for presentation to the consumer via the mobile communication device.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application: 13/650,345Filed 12 Oct 2012
Priority: 14 Oct 2011
Published: 18 Apr 2013
Term ends: Not estimatedThe source records don’t support an estimate.

Classification7 codes

G06Q 50/14
Services: travel agencies
G06Q 20/20
Payment architectures: point-of-sale [POS] network systems
G06Q 20/202
Point-of-sale [POS] network systems: interconnection or interaction of plural electronic cash registers [ECR] or to host computer, e.g. network…
G06Q 20/387
Payment protocols; Details thereof: payment using discounts or coupons