System and method for remote transaction initiation
OwnerBrett Circeinventor
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Abstract
A system and method for automatically issuing a machine credit in response to some electronic communications action by a user, enabling the distribution of physical rewards for actions such as updating their social status with their mobile device. The components of Applicant's invention include a dispensing machine connected to a network and a central server which can remotely issue a credit upon command. In one embodiment, a system monitor and a validation module housed in a central server, and a redemption module housed on a dispensing machine, which work in concert to provide a user with credit on the dispensing machine in response to the user performing certain requested or directed actions in a social media setting with their mobile device on otherwise on their mobile device.
Claims20
A system for administrating the initiation of transactions in a remote location in response to electronic communications activity on a mobile device, comprising:
- a computer system having one or more processor units and non-transitory computer-readable medium in communication with the one or more processor unit, said medium having one or more computer programs stored thereon including a set of instructions that, when executed by one or more processor units, cause the one or more processor units to perform operations of;
- monitoring at least one electronic communication network for a machine credit request;
- validating any machine credit request detected, wherein the step of validating includes at least associating at least one credit accepting machine with the detected machine credit request;
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- commanding the associated credit accepting machine to issue machine credit representing a particular value amount in response to a validated machine credit request.
A method for administrating the initiation of transactions in a remote location in response to electronic communications activity on a mobile device, comprising the steps of:
- providing a computer connected to at least one electronic communication network and having one or more processor units and non-transitory computer-readable medium in communication with the one or more processor unit, wherein said medium having one or more computer programs stored thereon which include a set of instructions executable by one or more processor units;
- configuring one or more credit accepting machines to automatically issue machine credit in one or more some value amounts in response to a remotely generated electronic command from the computer system;
- monitoring by said one or more processor units said at least one electronic communication network for a machine credit request;
- validating by said one or more processor units any machine credit request detected, wherein the step of validating includes at least associating at least one credit accepting machine with the detected machine credit request;
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- commanding by said one or more processor units the associated credit accepting machine to issue machine credit representing a particular value amount in response to a validated machine credit request.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.