Patent ID: 11954702
Assignee: CATALINA MARKETING CORPORATION
Field: IT methods for management (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC G | IPC G

Claim 17:
18. A computer-implemented method, comprising:
identifying, at a remote server, a consumer at a point of sale location, wherein the consumer checks out multiple products in a shopping basket;
informing the consumer that a rebate is due, on a product, from the shopping basket;
instructing a network terminal to provide a valid rebate voucher for the product, to the consumer;
providing a running total of earned rebates and points for display in an application installed in a client device used by the consumer;
crediting the rebate to a consumer account after the consumer has purchased the product;
correlating multiple items in a shopping basket received from the consumer through the application installed in the client device with multiple items in a shopping basket scanned by a point of sale device;
identifying a time and a place for a consumer transaction before the consumer transaction occurs, based on a pre-selected time-varying pattern and a correlation with the point of sale device; and
updating, in the remote server, the consumer account with an offer to the consumer based on a purchase of the product.