Patent ID: 11900356
Assignee: EDATANETWORKS INC
Field: IT methods for management (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC G | IPC G

Claim 1:
2. The method as defined in claim 1, further comprising:
receiving information for the transaction including the date and the time, a currency amount, and identifiers for the merchant and the account holder;
and
for each said transaction for which the date and time are prior to an expiration date of the offer by the one said merchant to make the donation to the charity having the physical address in the residential community of the account holder:
using the identifier for the one said merchant to access a database to retrieve a business rule for making the donation to the charity having the physical address in the residential community of the account holder;
using the identifier for the account holder to retrieve a business rule for the merchant to make the donation to the charity;
deriving, using the business rules of the merchant and the account holder, the donation to the charity; and
transmitting a message containing the donation to be made by the merchant.