Method and system for providing rewards to a portable computing device at the point of sale
AssigneeSignature Systems LLC
InventorRichard Postrel
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Abstract
A method of providing rewards to a user by storing, in a portable computing device, user profile data which may be accessed by a merchant terminal. A merchant terminal interacts with the portable computing device by accessing the user profile data from the portable computing device, and providing the user with a reward in accordance with the user profile data accessed by the merchant terminal, wherein the merchant terminal provides a relatively greater reward to the user when relatively more user profile data is accessed by the merchant terminal and a relatively lesser reward to the user when relatively less data is accessed by the merchant terminal.
Claims12
A method of a merchant terminal providing a reward to a user comprising:
- a merchant terminal accessing user profile data stored in a portable computing device;
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- the merchant terminal providing the user with a reward in accordance with the user profile data accessed by the merchant terminal by uploading the reward into a memory in the portable computing device, wherein the merchant terminal provides a relatively greater reward to the user when relatively more user profile data is accessed by the merchant terminal and a relatively lesser reward to the user when relatively less data is accessed by the merchant terminal.
A reward system comprising:
- a. a portable computing device comprising a memory, the memory storing user profile data;
- b. a merchant terminal programmed to interact with the portable computing device to
- (i) access the user profile data from the portable computing device;
- and
- (ii) provide the user with a reward in accordance with the user profile data accessed by the merchant terminal by uploading the reward into the memory in the portable computing device, wherein the merchant terminal provides a relatively greater reward to the user when relatively more user profile data is accessed by the merchant terminal and a relatively lesser reward to the user when relatively less data is accessed by the merchant terminal.
A merchant terminal comprising a portable computing device reader programmed to interact with a portable computing device to:
- (i) access user profile data from the portable computing device;
- and
- (ii) provide the user with a reward in accordance with the user profile data accessed by the merchant terminal by uploading the reward into the memory in the portable computing device, wherein the merchant terminal provides a relatively greater reward to the user when relatively more user profile data is accessed by the merchant terminal and a relatively lesser reward to the user when relatively less data is accessed by the merchant terminal.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.