| 摘要 |
A remote station for tracking promotion of at least one group of products each of which bears a code that uniquely identifies each product in the group, wherein the remote station may be communicatively coupled to at least one user station is disclosed. The station includes a database resident at the remote station, wherein the database stores ones of the uniquely identifying codes that have been previously received from one or more user stations, and a database server, coupled to the database, that compares each new candidate code received from a given user station against the previously received codes stored in the database. The database server credits an account of a user associated with the given user station with a non-zero promotional credit only if such new candidate code received from the given user station was not previously stored in the database. The database server stores such new candidate code in the database as a previously received code if such new candidate code was not previously stored in the database. |
| 主权项 |
1. A method, comprising:
establishing, by at least one computer processor, an account, identified with an account holder, comprising a plurality of defined purses, wherein a value chaining logic is definable for both the account and each purse and the value chaining logic comprises a hierarchy for application of value contained in each of the plurality of defined purses to a transaction amount wherein further the hierarchy defines the application of value from one or more of the plurality of defined purses to fulfill a transaction; receiving, by the at least one computer processor, transaction information comprising a transaction request with an amount, from a merchant, and further comprising a code pertaining to one or more qualifying products which form at least a portion of a transaction initiated by the account holder at a point of sale; applying, by the at least one computer processor, the value chaining logic to the amount associated with the transaction request, wherein the value chaining logic is applied until the amount is fulfilled with value from the one or more of the plurality of defined purses as specified by the value chaining logic; performing, by the at least one computer processor, a comparison of the code from the transaction information against previously received codes; storing, electronically, the code in a database wherein the code becomes a previously received code upon storage; generating a credit to the account based each new candidate code, wherein the credit comprises a particular type non-zero value, wherein the non-zero value comprises one of electronic cash, micro-payments, loyalty points, or electronic coupons; storing the credit in one of the plurality of defined purses that is configured to store the particular type of non-zero value of which the credit is comprised; and notifying, electronically, the account holder of the credit. |
