Patent ID: 8788331
Filing Date: 2014-07-22
Classification: B42D,G06Q

Abstract:
1. A method for generating a commission for a passport photo provider, comprising: receiving by a travel service processor a request from a customer to purchase a travel service, wherein said request includes both a token that identifies a travel service provider and an incentive applicable to the purchase of the travel service; wherein said token comprises a uniform resource locator (URL) with a tag, said tag for identifying the passport photo provider; wherein said token and said incentive were included as part of a product packaging provided to the customer pursuant to a purchase by the customer of a passport photo from a passport photo provider, said product packaging comprising all of a first discrete partition for displaying the incentive for purchasing the travel service from said travel service provider and the token for identifying the travel service provider, a discrete second partition for displaying how the customer may order the travel service from the travel service provider, and a third discrete partition to which the purchased passport photo of the customer is affixed; wherein said passport photo provider identified the customer as part of an identified group of customers based on the purchase by the customer of the passport photo from the passport photo provider; wherein when said customer visits a website of the travel service provider using said URL; providing by the travel service processor said website modified to target the identified group of customers by only providing targeted information on travel; identifying by the travel service processor the passport photo provider from the tag; applying by the travel service processor the incentive to the purchase of the travel service; processing by the travel service processor the purchase, including the applied incentive, of the travel service from the customer; wherein said purchase of the travel service triggers a transaction between the travel service provider and the passport photo provider identified by the tag; generating and transmitting by the travel service processor a commission to the passport photo provider identified by the tag in response to said purchase of the travel service triggering a transaction between said travel service provider and said passport photo provider identified by the tag; and maintaining by the travel service processor a record for the travel service provider for all customer information, an identity of the passport photo provider identified by the tag, and the travel service purchased by the customer with the applied incentive.