Patent ID: 7823772

Claim:
A managed service, comprising: first logic to: provide, via a first network, authentication information to a device on behalf of a mobile terminal to identify the mobile terminal for a near field transaction with the device, receive, via the first network and based on the authentication information, transaction information associated with the near field transaction sent from the device, where the transaction information is produced by the device on behalf of the mobile terminal and contains a particular amount of detail with respect to the near field transaction that corresponds to a selected reward level, of a plurality of reward levels, of a data mining rewards program in which a user of the mobile terminal is enrolled, and receive, via a second network, user information via the mobile terminal, the user information identifying characteristics of the user of the mobile terminal in the particular amount of detail corresponding to the selected reward level; and second logic to: produce a result that comprises information mined from at least one of the transaction information or the user information, where the result identifies characteristics of at least one of the transaction or the user.