Patent ID: 6748365
Filing Date: 2004-06-08
Classification: G06Q,G07G

Abstract:
A method for processing a plurality of rebate claims submitted by a consumer is satisfaction of rebate offers each having a monetary value, the consumer having made, in each of plural transactions recorded by a data processing system, a designated purchase having a rebate offer associated therewith, and each transaction having a transaction code assigned thereto identifying the specific qualified transaction but not identifying a particular designated purchase, the method comprising the steps of:(a) receiving a plurality of rebate claims from the consumer, each rebate claim comprising (i) customer identifying information, and (ii) a transaction code which does not include information which identifies a designated purchase in the transaction identified by the transaction code; (b) matching the transaction code identified in the rebate claims with a transaction code in a data record containing information from the data processing system which contains for each transaction code the identification of each designated purchase associated with the transaction identified by such transaction code; (c) processing the plurality of rebate claims and data records to create a plurality of validated rebate claims by matching the identification of each designated purchase in the corresponding data record to a corresponding identification in a database of rebate offers to determine the value of each rebate offer; (d) aggregating the monetary value of the plurality of validated rebate claims; and (e) transferring the aggregated monetary value to the customer.