Appeal No. 2005-2439
Application No. 09/754,378
Representative claim 76 is reproduced as follows:
76. A method for viewing and printing at a remote terminal
user-specific incentives, the method comprising:
storing at an Internet-accessible location incentive
information pertaining to a group of available incentives;
storing user profile information and user usage history
information for one or more users;
receiving at the Internet-accessible location, from a user
of a remote terminal, a request for access to the stored
incentive information;
determining at the Internet-accessible location if the user
is a registered user, and if the user is not registered:
i) transmitting a prompt to the user’s remote
terminal to electronically complete a user
profile;
ii) receiving and storing the user profile; and
iii) downloading to the user’s remote terminal an
incentive data management software module for
managing the printing of incentives, wherein a
printed incentive includes unique user
identification information;
if the user is registered, the user viewing a subset of
incentives from the group of available incentives, the subset of
incentives being based on user-specific information, which
comprises at least one of the user profile information and the
user usage history information;
the user selecting one or more incentives from the subset of
incentives for printing, each of the one or more incentives
comprising various fields, including a redemption amount field
and at least one other field, the redemption amount field
comprising data indicative of a discount provided by the
incentive, the at least one other field being determined in
accordance with user-specific information associated with the
requesting user;
printing at the remote terminal, under control of the
incentive data management software module, one or more of the
user-selected incentives which can be redeemed by a user;
storing at the Internet-accessible location information
regarding printed incentives;
subsequent to a user redeeming one or more of the printed
incentives, storing redemption information;
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