Data processing: financial – business practice – management – or co – Automated electrical financial or business practice or... – Discount or incentive
Patent
1997-02-26
1999-11-23
Kemper, Melanie A.
Data processing: financial, business practice, management, or co
Automated electrical financial or business practice or...
Discount or incentive
705 35, 705 39, G06F 1760
Patent
active
059917369
ABSTRACT:
Embodiments are disclosed of a patronage incentive system in which a monetary award is made to a customer's retirement account as incentive for the customer to participate in a transaction with the sponsor for the sponsor's goods or services. The system includes a means for identifying the customer, a means for inputting the identification information and other information about the transaction into a computer data storage, a computer data processing device which uses a software program along with the transactional information to calculate an incentive award amount a means for transferring the monetary funds equal to the incentive award amount from an incentive award pool to the customer's retirement account, and a means of reporting the incentive award amount to the customer and to the sponsor. Embodiments of a method of conducting a patronage incentive system of the present invention are also disclosed comprising the steps of inputting transactional information into a computer data storage device, calculating the incentive award amount through the use of a computer data processing device, transferring monetary funds equal to the incentive award amount from an incentive award pool to the customer's retirement account, and reporting the incentive award amount to the customer and to the sponsor.
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Ferguson Clayton T.
Ferguson Henry
Kemper Melanie A.
Lizzi Thomas
Schermer Leland P.
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