System and method providing customer incentive to purchase non-fuel products and services

US7383204B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• AutoGas Systems, Inc. · US

Inventors

• Don Charles McCall · Cedar Park, US
• Dave Embertson · Austin, US
• Mike Zahajko · Austin, US
• Stephen Mixon · Round Rock, US
• G. Randy Nicholson · Abilene, US

Key dates

• Filing date: Feb 6, 2007
• Grant date: Jun 3, 2008
• Expiry date: Feb 6, 2027

Classification

• Technology area (CPC G): Physics
• CPC primary: G07G1/0045
• WIPO field: IT methods for management
• WIPO sector: Electrical engineering

Abstract

A system and computer-implemented method of providing an incentive for a customer to purchase non-fuel products or services at a store that sells the products or services and fuel. The system detects that the customer purchased a number of non-fuel products or services in a first visit to the store, and provides the customer with a first reward entitling the customer to a first amount of free fuel. The system then detects that the customer purchased a number of non-fuel products or services in a second visit to the store, and provides the customer with a second reward entitling the customer to a second amount of free fuel. The customer is identified during a subsequent fueling transaction, and the system dispenses an amount of free fuel to the customer equal to the total of the first and second amounts of free fuel.