Data processing: financial – business practice – management – or co – Automated electrical financial or business practice or... – Discount or incentive
Reexamination Certificate
2005-06-14
2005-06-14
Carlson, Jeffrey D. (Department: 3622)
Data processing: financial, business practice, management, or co
Automated electrical financial or business practice or...
Discount or incentive
Reexamination Certificate
active
06907400
ABSTRACT:
A promotion apparatus and method which builds customer loyalty. The promotion apparatus includes a computer, including a display for displaying information to a shopper and a recognition device for identifying the shopper and recording customer choices. The computer executes a game, identifies the shopper, establishes a first game situation for the shopper, generates a number of first results, generates a number of second results using the first game situation and the first results as inputs, generates a second game situation using the second results as input, and determines whether to issue an award to the shopper using the second results as input and only if the first game situation is a previous game situation from a previous play by the shopper.
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National Lottery Information Press Pack, website for http://www.national-lottery.co.uk, Apr. 28, 1999, specific web page address: http://web.archive.org/web/19980130021723/www.national-lottery.co.uk/inform/press.html.
Matsko Michael J.
Nycz Lew P.
Carlson Jeffrey D.
Duran Arthur
Martin Paul W.
NCR Corporation
Priest & Goldstein PLLC
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