Patent ID: 9031859
Filing Date: 2015-05-12
Classification: G06Q

Abstract:
1. A method comprising: receiving, via a computing device, information relating to a transaction comprising a sale of a product by a merchant to an account holder conducted on a consumer account issued to the account holder by an issuer, wherein the product is a predetermined combination of a plurality of different items; requesting, via the computing device, from the issuer, payment for the transaction to the merchant; confirming, via the computing device, that the transaction occurs within a predetermined time period and that there is a rebate associated with the product and a corresponding sponsor financially responsible for the rebate, wherein the sponsor comprises a plurality of entities each having a corresponding account number, wherein each of the plurality of entities is associated with a respective one of the plurality of different items; and transmitting, via the computing device, to a transaction handler, instructions to debit the rebate from a sponsor account of the sponsor, wherein the debiting of the rebate to the account of the sponsor comprises debiting a predetermined portion of the rebate respectively to each of the account numbers of the plurality of entities.