Methods and systems for providing a best price guarantee

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United States of America Patent

PATENT NO 9105022
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12795746

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A financial institution can provide a best price guarantee to debit or credit card account holders. By providing a consolidated system including automatic price monitoring of purchased products and automatic claim form generation upon identifying a lower price, the consumer is relieved of the burden typically associated with conventional price matching. An exemplary method comprises receiving, by a server, purchase information from a financial customer, wherein the purchase information comprises a purchase price and purchased product description and wherein the customer has a credit or debit card issued by the financial institution; storing, by the server, the purchase information in a first database; locating, by the server, from a second database, stored product information corresponding to the received purchased product description, wherein the stored product information comprises a lowest price datum; comparing, by the server, the lowest price datum to the purchase price; and, if the lowest price datum is less than the purchase price, generating a claim form for the financial customer.

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Patent Owner(s)

  • CITIBANK, N.A.;CARTERA COMMERCE, INC.

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Inventor Name Address # of filed Patents Total Citations
Merola, Anthony Merrick, US 3 4
Sharma, Neeraj New York, US 101 487
Tankha, Ateesh Secaucus, US 3 4

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