Patent ID: 8996399
Filing Date: 2015-03-31
Classification: G06Q

Abstract:
1. A product promotion method, performed in a computing system, comprising: prior to running at least one product promotion, storing, in a database in the computer system, product promotion criteria of at least one product promotion, comprising: receiving, by the computer system, at least three unique product identifying numbers associated with at least three products offered by the store from the at least one participant; during the promotional time period over which the at least one product promotion runs as identified by the second data of the product promotion criteria of the at least one product promotion, comparing, by the computer system, the at least three unique product identifying numbers to the third data about the at least three promotion participating products identified in the product promotion criteria of the at least one product promotion; determining, by the computer system, a match between the at least three unique product identifying numbers and the third data about the at least three promotion participating products identified in the product promotion criteria of the at least one product promotion; upon the match, outputting, by the computer system, based on the product promotion criteria of the at least one product promotion, at least one notification, identifying that the at least one participant is at least one winning participant; and based on the product promotion criteria of the at least one product promotion and upon the match, ending, by the computer system, the at least one product promotion, by: i) distributing the at least one winning prize to the at least one winning participant who is the first winning participant, or ii) distributing at least a portion of the at least one winning prize to the at least one winning participant so that the at least one winning prize is distributed among the group of the winning participants, wherein the unique product identifying numbers of the at least three promotion participating products offered at the at least one store are received from each winning participant during the promotional time period.