PROVIDING INCENTIVES BY WAY

Brand	Owner (click to sort)	Address	Description
JOIN THE ELITE	Rommania, Inc.	355 N. Lantana Street, #562 Camarillo CA 930106083	providing incentives by way of awards and award certificates to members of Join the Elite who use educational speed reading software in order to demonstrate excellence in the field of educational speed reading;
MS. FITNESS WORLD	WALLY BOYKO PRODUCTIONS, INC.	POB 2490 White City OR 97503	Providing incentives by the way of awards and contests to demonstrate excellence in the field of physical fitness for women;MISS FITNESS WORLD;FITNESS;
PAY2WIN	Merrick Bank Corporation	Suite 200 10705 SOUTH JORDAN GATEWAY South Jordan UT 84095	Providing incentives by the way of prizes and sweepstakes in the field of banking services, on-line banking services, credit card services, and payment processing services;PAY TO WIN; PAY TWO WIN;
REVVED ABOUT READING	Central Programs, Inc.	802 N. 41st Street Bethany MO 64424	Providing incentives by way of awards to promote reading by students;READING;
	Where the owner name is not linked, that owner no longer owns the brand

Technical Examples

A system and method for delivering purchasing incentives and a variety of other retail shopping aids through a computer network, such as by E-mail over the Internet or the World Wide Web. Customers (10) of retail stores can establish a bi-directional communication link with the system, log in (16) to the system, and then elect to browse among available purchasing incentive offers (18, 22), or elect to explore other shopping aids, such as a shopping list generator (26), a recipe center (30), or simply elect to claim a product rebate or to receive product information. If the customer elects to have product information or rebate information delivered, only minimal customer identification is required. For purchase incentives redeemable at retail stores, the customer must provide identification information and must also designate a retailer (12) at which the purchasing incentive can be exercised. For receipt of focused incentives based the customer's past shopping behavior, the customer must also supply a unique customer id., such as a check cashing card number or credit card number, used for in-store purchases. For delivery of a product sample, the customer's name and address must be supplied. The system merges this customer-supplied information (270) with other purchase incentive data (272) and creates a printable graphical image of the purchasing incentive (282) for transmission to the customer. In an alternate embodiment of the invention, the purchase incentive is not transmitted directly to the customer. Instead, the terms of the incentive are transmitted electronically to the retail store (310) designated by the customer, who receives either a token (316) to present at the store or an advisory message. In yet another embodiment of the invention, incentives may be targeted to specific consumers based on a consumer purchase history (502), and transmitted to consumers' computers (510) using electronic mail addresses stored in a consumer database (506).