Patent ID: 8108251

Claim:
A system for managing promotions over a network comprising: a promotion server system including a computer processor and associated datastore, said datastore containing data comprising terms and statistics of item promotions and electronic tokens; a commercial server system including a computer processor and associated commercial datastore, said commercial datastore containing data comprising terms and statistics of item promotions and electronic tokens, and a client server system including a computer processor and associated client datastore, said client datastore containing data comprising terms and statistics of item promotions and electronic tokens; wherein said commercial server system further includes a script for generating a website frame having a predetermined signature, such that a cookie deposited by said website frame is encoded with said predetermined signature, and said predetermined signature corresponds to said website frame; wherein said commercial server system is programmed to provide said electronic token to said client server system, such that said electronic token uniquely corresponds to said predetermined signature; wherein said commercial server system is programmed to distribute said website frame over said network to said promotion server system; wherein said client server system is programmed to connect to said promotion server system over said network; wherein said promotion server system is programmed to transmit said electronic token from said website frame over said network to said client server system; and wherein said promotion server system is programmed to transmit over said network to said commercial server system coupon information associated with the client received from said electronic token; wherein said promotion server system further includes code for providing, to said commercial server system, promotion data, said promotion data comprising terms and statistics of item promotions, electronic tokens, and purchase transaction data.