Patent ID: 8725593
Filing Date: 2014-05-13
Classification: G06Q

Abstract:
1. A method for enabling gift transactions with cookies, comprising: receiving a cookie gift order from a customer through an Internet-connected computing device, the cookie gift order specifying an electronic delivery address associated with a recipient, and a number of ordered cookies; at a processor, transmitting a redeemable cookie invitation to the electronic delivery address, the redeemable cookie invitation comprising a prompt to accept the cookie gift order; billing the customer according to the number of ordered cookies; at a processor, in response to acceptance of the cookie gift order through the redeemable cookie invitation, transmitting a cookie code to the electronic delivery address, the cookie code redeemable at a cookie merchant for the number of ordered cookies; in response to redemption of the cookie code at the cookie merchant at a first time for a first number of cookies less than the number of ordered cookies, decrementing a number of cookies redeemable at the cookie merchant with the cookie code by the first number of cookies; notifying the customer of redemption of the cookie code for the first number of cookies; and in response to redemption of the cookie code at the cookie merchant at a second time for a second number of cookies, decrementing the number of cookies redeemable at the cookie merchant with the cookie code by the second number of cookies.