Patent ID: 7904332
Filing Date: 2011-03-08
Classification: G06Q

Abstract:
1. A method for facilitating an incentive program via an electronic data processing system, the method comprising the steps of: establishing a library as a comprehensive list of available incentive programs, for agricultural input products targeted to producers of agricultural products, the library stored in a data storage device associated with the data processing system; selecting, by a particular retailer with a retail level of access to the data processing system, the available incentive programs from the library of incentive programs through the discretion of the particular retailer servicing a particular producer based on retailer preferences comprising a geographic region that the retailer services, historic sales, and a supplier relationship with one or more suppliers of the incentive programs, the retailer level of access being different from a producer level of access to the data processing system by the producers, the particular retailer controlling the level of access of the producers to the data processing system to support limiting accessible information to the producers to the selected available incentive programs; receiving crop planning data of the particular producer at the data processing system via an interface, the crop planning data comprising background data on the particular producer or the producer's operations; searching the library or its selected, available incentive programs based upon the received crop planning data to select a tailored list of candidate incentive programs from the established library of available incentive programs; making information accessible on or limited to the available candidate incentive programs in the tailored list to the particular producer via the interface; supporting selection of a preferential one of the candidate incentive programs via the interface; and transferring the crop planning data and incentive program data on the preferential one from a program manager for the incentive programs to a financial screening process of a financial screening system of the data processing system to reduce or eliminate duplicative reentry of the background data applicable to the incentive programs and the financial screening process associated with financing of the products via electronic communications, where an application data capture module populates an application for the financial product based on the gathered background data.