Appeal No. 2006-3400
Application No. 10/268,040
Invention
The invention is directed to a method of activating discount
instruments which are sold as part of a fundraiser. Once activated the
discount instrument allows the bearer to receive a discount from a merchant.
Claim 1 is representative of the invention and reproduced below:
1. A method for applying a discount to a transaction, the method
comprising:
extracting, with a point-of-sale device, an identifier from a
discount instrument presented at a point of sale;
transmitting the identifier from the point-of-sale device to a
host system that maintains a specification of one or more discount
instruments activated by the host system after sale of the one or more
discount instruments as part of a fundraising drive;
receiving, with the point-of-sale device from the host system, a
validation for the presented discount instrument generated by
confirming that the presented discount instrument is one of the one or
more activated discount instruments; and
modifying the transaction, with the point-of-sale device, in
accordance with a discount arrangement associated with the presented
discount instrument.
References
The references relied upon by the Examiner are:
Nichtberger US Re. 34,915 Apr. 25, 1995
Thompson US 5,865,470 Feb. 2, 1999
Barnett US 6,336,099 Jan. 1, 2002
Rejection at Issue
Claims 1 through 11, 13, 21 through 28, 30 through 39, and 41
through 48 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 103 (a) as being unpatentable
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