System for offering targeted discounts to customers and collecting purchasing behavior data
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Nov 19, 2002
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A system for presenting customized special offers to customers, the special offers including targeted offers to a customer selected from a plurality of customers, and for collecting purchasing behavior information concerning the customers, the system comprising a computer including a database containing customer account information providing information specific to a particular customer account; the at computer also including a database containing special offers including a targeted offer which is to be made to selected customer accounts on the basis of targeted offer targeting parameters; a plurality of customer cards, each customer card having machine readable card information indicating at least identification of the card with a particular customer account; a customer interface in communication with the computer to transfer data therebetween; the customer interface having a card reader for reading machine readable card information from the customer card; the computer including means for generating a customized customer offer list available to that particular customer account which includes the special offer; an offer communicator for communicating the customer offer list to the customer for which it is generated; a check-out at which the customer presents purchased item information indicating items being purchased by the customer; the check-out including a card reader for reading the customer card; the computer including means for sending information from the customized customer offer list to the check-out; the computer further including means for collecting customer purchase information which is indicative of items being purchased by the customer via the check-out; the computer still further including means for editing the customer account information to reflect items purchased by the customer.
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- CATALINA MARKETING CORPORATION;MICRO ENHANCEMENT INTERNATIONAL
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Inventor Name | Address | # of filed Patents | Total Citations |
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Day, Larry J | Spokane, WA | 3 | 1144 |
Knutson, Theodore | Spokane, WA | 3 | 1144 |
Weinkauf, Merle S | Spokane, WA | 3 | 1144 |
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