Method for providing price-per-unit discounts for fuel to a customer,申请号US20010991815-传众专利搜索

Method for providing price-per-unit discounts for fuel to a customer

申请公布号：US6732081(B2)

申请号：US20010991815

申请日期：2001.11.17

申请公布日期：2004.05.04

申请人：

AUTOGAS SYSTEMS, INC.

发明人：NICHOLSON G. RANDY

分类号：G06Q30/00;(IPC1-7):G06F17/60

主分类号：G06Q30/00

摘要：A method of providing multiple level, price-per-unit (PPU) discounts on gasoline to a customer who purchases at least one cross-marketed product. The customer is awarded a first PPU discount on the gasoline based on a purchase by the customer of a first cross-marketed product, and is awarded a second PPU discount based on the purchase of a second cross-marketed product. The first discount is then added to the second discount to determine a total PPU discount, and a paper receipt is printed for the customer with a customer identification and a transaction identification encoded in a bar code thereon. The total discount is stored in a discounts issued database. The customer then scans the encoded bar code with a bar code scanner at a gasoline dispenser to redeem the discount. The total discount is retrieved from the discounts issued database, and the gasoline station then reduces the price-per-unit-volume of the gasoline by an amount equal to the total discount. When the customer completes the gasoline purchase, a value of the total discount redeemed is determined and stored in a discounts redeemed database. Portions of the discount redeemed are then allocated to vendors of the first and second cross-marketed products according to predetermined criteria.