Patent ID: 11928702
Assignee: INMAR CLEARING, INC.
Field: IT methods for management (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC G | IPC G

Claim 7:
8. A shopper information processing server comprising:
a processor and an associated memory configured to store shopper information associated with a given shopper as an administrator on a blockchain such that the shopper information processing server has ownership of the shopper information on the blockchain for setting privileges for access to the shopper information, the shopper information associated with a permissions ledger and a distributed ledger on the blockchain, the permissions ledger controlling access to the distributed ledger, the distributed ledger permitting access to the shopper information on the blockchain,
cooperate with a shopper device associated with the given shopper to provide a user interface (UI) to permit the given shopper to provide input for selecting subsets of the shopper information defining shopper permissions,
cooperate with the shopper device to permit the shopper to provide credentials for accessing at least one loyalty program,
store the shopper permissions for selectively accessing, on the blockchain, the shopper information by updating the permissions ledger based upon the shopper permissions,
permit the at least one loyalty program to access the selected shopper information on the blockchain, via the distributed ledger, based upon the shopper permissions and the credentials,
generate a digital coupon based upon an amount of shopper information permitted to be selectively accessed by the at least one loyalty program, and
communicate the digital coupon to the shopper device.