Patent ID: 8108977
Filing Date: 2012-02-07
Classification: G06Q

Abstract:
1. A system for facilitating the management and electronic ordering of goods and services over an existing electronic financial network, the system comprising: a product identification medium including identification indicia for each of a plurality of products of a products provider presented in association with identification indicia for each of a plurality of product order codes to thereby allow a plurality of customers to identify a desired product; a customer order transaction card for ordering one or more of the plurality of products of the products provider, the transaction card having a storage medium for storing an electronic payment network compatible transaction card identifier unique to a specific customer of the plurality of customers, the identifier comprising an issuer identifier number and a specific customer account number of a plurality of customer account numbers associated with the product provider; a point of sale terminal configured to interface with a plurality of cards, including the transaction card and to receive one or more of the plurality of product order codes and the identifier of the customer order transaction card and transmit the one or more of the plurality of product order codes and the identifier via an existing financial services electronic payment network to an issuer of the customer order transaction card responsive to the existing financial services electronic payment network identifying the issuer of the customer order transaction card; and a computer to facilitate electronic ordering and management of products over the existing financial services electronic payment network defining a member interface protocol computer, the member interface protocol computer comprising: non-transitory memory encoded with computer program operable on the member interface protocol computer, the computer program comprising the instructions of: