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

Claim 7:
8. A method comprising:
receiving a transmission that includes:
digitized audio data containing a keyword of a request;
an identifier for the geo-location of a transmitter of the transmission; and
an account number for an account holder;

performing a speech-to-text conversion on the digitized audio data to derive identifier for the keyword of the request;
accessing one or more databases, using the identifier, the account number of the account holder, and the geo-location of the transmitter of the transmission to look-up information corresponding to:
a geographic area corresponding to the account holder;
a first set of merchants having a physical address in the geographic area corresponding to the account holder;
a second set of said merchants in the first set having an attribute matching the identifier for the keyword;
a third set of said merchants in the second set having an unexpired offer to make a donation to an affinity entity having a physical address in the geographic area corresponding to the account holder;

and
for each said merchant in the third set:
calculating navigation data using the identifier for the geo-location of the transmitter of the transmission and the physical address of the merchant;
performing a text-to-speech conversion into digitized audio data of:
a name of the merchant; and
the navigation data;

transmitting the digitized audio data for the third set of merchants for delivery to the transmitter;
receiving, in response to the transmission of the digitized audio data, digitized audio input that includes an identifier for one said merchants in the third set;
performing a speech-to-text conversion on the digitized audio data to derive the identifier for the one said merchant in the third set;
transmitting to a logical address for the one said merchant in the third set data selected from the group consisting of:
an identifier for the account holder;
the corresponding said calculated navigation data; and
the corresponding said unexpired offer to make the donation to the affinity entity having the physical address in the geographic area corresponding to the account holder;

receiving acknowledgement of a transaction between the account holder and the one said merchant in the third set; and
transmitting a message containing the donation to be made to the donation to the affinity entity having the physical address in the geographic area corresponding to the account holder.