James E Schiesler

US Patent:

20040219971, Nov 4, 2004

Filed:

Jul 24, 2003

Appl. No.:

10/626148

Inventors:

David Ciancio - Liberty Township OH, US
Gregory Freeman - Murfreesboro TN, US
Edward Korfhagen - Cincinnati OH, US
James Schiesler - Loveland OH, US
Richard Stern - Union KY, US
Stephen Wall - Loveland OH, US
Adrian Coy - London, GB
Simon Hay - Cincinnati OH, US
Mark Hinds - Cincinnati OH, US
Sarah Myatt - Cincinnati OH, US

International Classification:

G06F017/60
A63F009/24
A63F013/00
G06F017/00
G06F019/00

US Classification:

463/025000, 705/014000

Abstract:

A method for operating a reward program including the steps of establishing a plurality of product categories and receiving an indication of selected ones of the product categories. The method further includes the step of tracking customer purchases in at least the selected categories and providing a reward to the customer based at least in part upon customer purchases in the selected categories.