Patent ID: 8762198

Claim:
A method of processing a purchasing transaction of a user of a product to assign bonus-credits to a bonus account of the user of the product, the method comprising: a) entering, via an operator interface in a computer system, data for the purchasing transaction, the transaction data identifying an entity receiving an invoice for purchasing the product, the user of the product, and the product, wherein the product is assigned a bonus-credit based on a bonus-credit code associated with the product, and wherein the entity receiving the invoice for the product and the user of the product are different entities and wherein the transaction data regarding the product is different than the bonus-credit code associated with the product; b) processing the transaction data and the bonus-credit code associated with the product in a computer system so as to purchase the product; and c) in response to processing the transaction data associated with the product, concurrently transforming the bonus-credit code associated with the product into the bonus-credit and assigning the bonus-credit to the bonus account of the user, wherein the bonus-credit code is not interpretable by the user.