US 2014/0156369 A1 · SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR AUTOMATICALLY DISTRIBUTING TANGIBLE REWARDS FOR ELECTRONIC SOCIAL ACTIVITY

Abstract

A system and method for automatically distributing physical rewards based on a user updating their social status with their mobile device utilizing a system monitor, a validation module, and a redemption module. The system monitor continually monitors social media networks for social updates containing certain preset specified content. When such content is identified, the location and other preset criteria pertaining to the device transmitting the update is validated by the validation module. Once the device has been validated, the redemption module is commanded to issue a tangible reward, such as a movie ticket from a ticket machine or a soda from a soda machine to the user of the device which transmitted the update. This way, the system and method provides a user with a tangible and immediately usable reward in response to the user publishing or sending certain social status updates, messages, or posts with their mobile device.

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Dependent claims

A system for administrating the automatic distribution of physical rewards in a remote location in response to electronic communications activity on a mobile device comprising:

a computer system having one or more processor units, wherein one or more credit accepting machines have been configured to automatically issue a credit in response to a electronic command from the computer system and said computer system is configured to execute the following steps;
monitoring at least one electronic communication network for a qualifying social action, wherein a qualifying social action includes publishing an electronic message containing one or more preset match phrases, the step of monitoring includes repeatedly checking for the publication of an electronic message containing one or more match phrases, and each qualifying social actions has been associated with at least one of the one or more credit accepting machines;
validating any qualifying social action detected, wherein the step of validating includes at least associating the social action with a unique user account and identifying at least one credit accepting machine associated with the detected qualifying social action;
and
commanding at least one associated credit accepting machine to issue a credit representing some value amount on the credit accepting machine.

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A method for administrating the automatic distribution of physical rewards in a remote location in response to electronic communications activity on a mobile device comprising the steps of:

providing a computer system having one or more processor units that is connected to at least one electronic communication network;
configuring one or more credit accepting machines to automatically issue a machine credit representing some value amount on the credit accepting machine in response to a electronic command from the computer system;
designating one or more qualifying social actions defined by the publication of publishing an electronic message containing one or more preset match phrases,
associating each qualifying social action with at least one of the one or more credit accepting machines;
monitoring by said computer system for a qualifying social action, wherein the step of monitoring includes repeatedly checking for the publication of an electronic message containing any match phrase;
validating by said computer system any qualifying social action detected, wherein the step of validating includes at least associating the social action with a unique user account and identifying at least one credit accepting machine associated with the detected qualifying social action;
and
commanding by said computer system at least one associated credit accepting machine to issue a machine credit.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

System and method for automatically distributing tangible rewards for electronic social activity

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System and method for automatically distributing tangible rewards for electronic social activity

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Abstract

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