Patent ID: 6256614
Filing Date: 2001-07-03
Classification: G06Q

Abstract:
An internet system method of giving a reward of free telephone call minutes to a potential customer or client accessing a reward-giving web site's software from manually operable means of a customer's or client's user station; each reward-giving web site having a data base accessible by this software and which has stored therein a reward message including the number of free telephone call minutes if a reward is to be given and at least one reward denial message with the reason given that the reward was previously given, and various inquiries relevant to a given customer or client category; each user station having manually operable means to address a selected web site and to send inquiry answers to the web site and a display unit, said display unit having a display screen with a telephone calling card information-receiving area thereon and means for printing out at least said information-receiving area thereof to form a calling card, said method comprising the steps of:when the user properly accesses the web site the web site's software automatically sending to the accessing user's display unit screen the accessed web site's appropriate data base stored inquiries which include an inquiry for the user's identification including at least the name and address of the user; andin response to the inquiry answers sent to the web site by the user if the reward is to be given, the web site obtaining automatically under software control an available pin number and telephone access number and automatically immediately transmitting the same and the number of free telephone minutes to be rewarded from said data base to said telephone card information-receiving area of said user station display unit screen, and the web site recording in the web site data base that a reward has been given to the user involved for answering the inquiries involved, and if the data base stored information indicates that a reward was previously given for answering these inquiries under software control immediately transmitting said reward refusal message to the user's station display unit screen.