Transactions with reward points

US10497027B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• American Express Travel Related Services Company, Inc. · US

Inventors

• Sibish Basheer · Phoenix, US
• Nageshwara R. Chirravuri · Chandler, US
• Sastry VSM Durvasula · Phoenix, US
• Ravi Govindasamy · Phoenix, US
• Priyadarshini Koul · Scottsdale, US
• Ashish Kumar · Lewisville, US
• Premkumar Manivannan · Phoenix, US
• Sathish B. Muthukrishnan · Phoenix, US
• Varun Sood · Columbus, US
• Sohail Zafar · Fairfax, US

Key dates

• Filing date: Feb 26, 2018
• Grant date: Dec 3, 2019
• Expiry date: May 31, 2038

Classification

• Technology area (CPC G): Physics
• CPC primary: G06Q30/0281
• WIPO field: IT methods for management
• WIPO sector: Electrical engineering

Abstract

A method comprises receiving, by a computer-based system for processing a transaction, a notification that a transaction account holder has taken an action, taking, in near real time, an action in response to the action taken by the transaction account holder, and/or communicating with a web-client associated with the transaction account holder in response to the action taken by the transaction account holder. The communicating with the web-client may occur in near real time.