Rewards for purchases

US10360592B1 · kind B1 · utility

Assignee

• SHOPKICK, INC. · US

Inventors

• Aaron T. Emigh · Incline Village, US
• Navneet Loiwal · Sunnyvale, US
• Cyriac Roeding · Portola Valley, US
• Jeffrey Todd Sellinger · Manhattan Beach, US
• Evan Tana · San Francisco, US
• Sze Ngai Tsai · Sunnyvale, US
• Moritz Winter · Palo Alto, US

Key dates

• Filing date: Oct 18, 2011
• Grant date: Jul 23, 2019
• Expiry date: Jun 11, 2032

Classification

• Technology area (CPC G): Physics
• CPC primary: G06Q30/0261
• WIPO field: IT methods for management
• WIPO sector: Electrical engineering

Abstract

Providing rewards for purchases is disclosed. In some embodiments, electronic couponing data corresponding to an available reward offer for an item as well as an association of a loyalty identifier with the reward offer is provided to an electronic coupon processor; and in response to receiving an indication from the electronic coupon processor that the loyalty identifier was associated with a transaction in which the item was purchased, a user account is credited with a reward amount associated with the reward offer.