Patent ID: 8412586

Claim:
A computer program product, comprising: a non-transitory computer-readable medium having computer-readable program instructions embodied therein that when executed by a computer perform a method for providing credit to a first merchant for a purchase from a second merchant, the computer-readable program instructions comprising: computer-readable program instructions for receiving product information identifying a product for purchase, the product information obtained via a device at a location associated with a first merchant; computer-readable program instructions for receiving, from the device, information identifying a location of the device at the time that the device transmitted the product information; computer-readable program instructions for determining that the location of the device at the time the device transmitted the product information corresponds to the location associated with the first merchant; computer-readable program instructions for determining that the product was purchased from a second merchant different than the first merchant via the device; and computer-readable program instructions for providing a credit to the first merchant based on a determination that the location of the device at the time the device transmitted the product information corresponds to the location associated with the first merchant and a determination that the product was purchased from the second merchant via the device.