Patent ID: 8346616
Filing Date: 2013-01-01
Classification: G06Q

Abstract:
1. A system for approving or denying customer requests to withdraw fuel from retail locations, comprising: a storage system configured to store: account records each comprising an unique account identifier, a credited fuel quantity, and a price-centric retailer class associated with the credited fuel quantity; and price records each comprising an unique price-centric retailer class identifier and a posted fuel price for the corresponding price-centric retailer class; an electronic interface device connected to a network configured to receive customer withdrawal requests via retail locations over a network, wherein each withdrawal request comprises an account identifier and information for determining a price-centric retailer class of the retailer location; a processor coupled to the storage system and the interface; the processor configured to approve or deny each withdrawal request based on credited fuel quantity in the account record corresponding to the account identifier in the withdrawal request and any differential between the posted fuel price corresponding to the price-centric retailer class of the retailer and the posted fuel price corresponding to the price-centric retailer class associated with the credited fuel quantity, wherein each price-centric retailer class designates a price range segment of a fuel price range of retail locations and the price range segments of a plurality of price-centric retailer classes together substantially cover the fuel price range, and wherein a withdrawal approval or denial is returned over the network to the respective retail location in response to each withdrawal request.