Patent ID: 6631355
Filing Date: 2003-10-07
Classification: G06Q

Abstract:
A computerized method for cumulatively assigning credits to persons who book travel-related reservations for use in receiving prizes or awards, comprising the steps executed by a computer of:a) receiving a booking which includes information identifying a travel-related reservation, and an identification of a person who booked the travel-related reservation, and detecting events related to the travel-related reservation to control conversion of credits; b) cumulatively assigning credits to the person who booked the travel-related reservation based upon the travel-related reservation; and c) classifying the credits as pending credits, which are not redeemable for a prize or award, and subsequently converting the pending credits to redeemable credits, which are redeemable for a prize or award, if the method verifies through the receiving step that the pending credits are eligible for conversion to the redeemable credits based on the detecting step detecting the events.