Appeal No. 2005-2468
Application No. 09/943,941
BACKGROUND
Appellant's invention relates to a method and system for providing incentive
award information to a customer. A copy of the representative claim 1 under appeal is
reproduced below.
1. A method for providing incentive award information to a customer,
said method comprising:
obtaining customer information of a customer from an input device;
transmitting said customer information to a remotely located host
computer, wherein said host computer locates incentive award information
associated with said customer information;
in response to the receipt of a scanned product code at said input device,
transmitting said scanned product code from said input device to said host
computer;
determining within said host computer whether or not immediate purchase
of a product associated with said scanned product code qualifies said customer
for an award based on said located incentive award information;
in a determination that an immediate purchase of a product associated
with said scanned product code qualifies said customer for an award,
transmitting information related to an opportunity for receiving said award from
said host computer to said input device and displaying said information related to
said opportunity for receiving said award on said input device.
The prior art references of record relied upon by the examiner in rejecting the
appealed claims are:
Sloane 5,918, 211 Jun. 29, 1999
Harms et al. (Harms) 6,070,147 May 30, 2000
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