Patent ID: 8145534

Claim:
A birthday register system comprising: a computer configured to provide access through a network to a birthday gift register software system; a birthday gift register software system configured to: register a user's personal information including his or her birth date and zip code through the birthday gift register website; match the zip codes of registered users to zip codes of local businesses; search the birthday gift register website, responsive to user input, for gifts by category and sub category; provide an option to select a gift and print a customized gift certificate based on said birth date, wherein the gift certificate is capable of being presented to a participating business for redeeming a free or discounted gift: monitor the amount of gift certificates the user selects to print for a specific birthday and cutting off certificate access after a pre-determined number of gift selections; facilitate monitoring, by the participating businesses, of said online birthday register website for user gift selection and buying activities; and facilitate monitoring, by a facilitator of the online birthday register website, gift certificate activity of the users so that the facilitator can charge the participating business a referral fee for each printed gift certificate.