Patent ID: 6691915
Filing Date: 2004-02-17
Classification: G06K,G06Q,G07F

Abstract:
An electronic coupon system comprising:a coupon card; an in-store kiosk including a user interface including coupon selection instrumentation operative to prompt entry of coupon selection data at said user interface and to record said coupon selection data, and a coupon card interface including coupon card writing instrumentation operative to write coupon data to said coupon card according to said coupon selection data and coupon card reading instrumentation operative to read coupon data written to said coupon card; a point-of-sale terminal including a transaction data interface operative to permit entry of transaction data representative of a product sale and a product sale price, and a point-of-sale coupon card interface including coupon card reading instrumentation operative to read coupon data written to said coupon card and coupon card writing instrumentation operative to remove coupon data from said coupon card according to said transaction data; a host computer in communication with said in-store kiosk and said point-of-sale terminal; a coupon data processor programmed to correlate said transaction data with said coupon data read from said coupon card by said coupon card interface and to reduce said product sale price by an amount indicated in said coupon data; and a report generator programmed to generate a products-of-interest report, wherein said products-of-interest report lists products identified in coupons selected at said user interface but not identified in said transaction data.