Appeal No. 2004-0013
Application No. 09/234,889 Page 2
BACKGROUND
Appellants' invention relates to a method and system for
tracking smart card loyalty points. An understanding of the
invention can be derived from a reading of exemplary claim 1,
which is reproduced as follows:
1. A method of tracking smart card merchant loyalty program
information for a customer, comprising:
storing loyalty program information in a loyalty register of
a loyalty program application on a purchase log part of a
transaction log on a smart card microcomputer, wherein the
loyalty program application is capable of storing loyalty program
information for a plurality of merchants, each identified by a
unique merchant identifier, in a plurality of loyalty registers
and wherein the loyalty program information includes information
related to transactions with at least one merchant for the
customer and the loyalty register is identified by the unique
merchant identifier associated with the merchant to enable
transactions with the merchant to be matched with the loyalty
register for the merchant;
storing transaction information on the purchase log part of
the transaction log on the smart card microcomputer about
transactions with the merchant for the customer at a merchant
terminal, wherein the transaction information includes the unique
merchant identifier and a unique transaction number associated
with each transaction with the merchant in ascending numerical
order;
comparing the stored transaction information with the stored
loyalty program information at a stand-alone terminal that is
independent of the merchant terminal;
automatically identifying transaction information stored on
the purchase log part of the transaction log at the stand-alone
terminal about at least one transaction with the merchant for
which an associated transaction number is numerically greater
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