Patent ID: 8626579
Filing Date: 2014-01-07
Classification: G06Q,G07F

Abstract:
1. A computer-implemented method, comprising: storing, by a computing apparatus, an offer presented to the user in an online activity of the user; receiving, in the computing apparatus, a communication related to an offline transaction to be processed by a transaction handler to make a payment from an issuer of an account identifier to an acquirer via the transaction handler, the communication including the account identifier submitted by a merchant to the acquirer, the issuer to make the payment on behalf of a user of the account identifier, the acquirer to receive the payment on behalf of the merchant; communicating, by the computing apparatus, with the user during processing of the offline transaction to identify the offer and apply a benefit of the offer to the offline transaction; and identifying, by the computing apparatus, the online activity of the user as being responsible for the offline transaction based on the communicating during the processing of the offline transaction to identify the offer and apply the benefit of the offer to the offline transaction.