Patent ID: 7233913

Claim:
A system for distributing purchasing incentives to retail customers, said system comprising: a central computer configured to prompt over a computer network a user for data; a personal computer configured to transmit the user's data from said personal computer over said computer network to said central computer; and wherein said central computer is configured to transmit a selected incentive offer for a product to said personal computer; wherein said personal computer is further configured (1) to print or display said selected incentive offer having a canvas on which at least two members of a set of image elements including the system's logo, an incentive offer's size and border parameters, a user's name, a selected incentive offer's expiration date, a product's icon, a selected incentive offer's amount, a selected incentive offer's terms, legal text, redemption text, a selected incentive offer's sequence number, bar code numbers, and a selected incentive offer's designated supermarket are overlaid, (2) to select a background image based on random or preset parameters, and (3) to apply said background image to said canvas.