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

Claim 15:
16. The system as defined in claim 15, wherein the hardware executing the software is further operable to:
receive information for the transaction and including the date and the time, a currency amount, and identifiers for the merchant and the account holder;
and
when:
the identifiers for the merchant and the account holder respectively correspond to the identifiers of the account holder and the one said merchant in the third set data;
and
the date and time of the transaction are prior to an expiration date of the offer by the one said merchant in the third set data to make the donation to the affinity entity having the physical address in the geographic area corresponding to the account holder:

then:
use the identifier for the one said merchant in the third set data to access a database to retrieve a business rule for making the donation to the affinity entity having the physical address in the geographic area corresponding to the account holder;
use the identifier for the account holder to retrieve a business rule for the merchant to make the donation to the affinity entity having the physical address in the geographic area corresponding to the account holder;
derive, using the business rules of the merchant in the third set and the account holder, the donation to the affinity entity having the physical address in the geographic area corresponding to the account holder;
and
transmit a message containing the donation to be made by the merchant to the affinity entity for the predetermined time period to a logical address of the merchant.