MULTI-MERCHANT LOYALTY POINT PARTNERSHIP

Patent №

US 11,699,166

Granted

2023-07-11

Filed 2018

Owner

AMERICAN EXPRESS TRAVEL RELATED SERVICES COMPANY, INC.

Lab

AI components

1

planning

Assignment

Recorded

Dataset

AIPD

2023_r1 edition

Application

16168477

A blockchain-based multi-merchant loyalty point partnership system may include a blockchain API host that receives a request to create a partnership smart contract for a multi-merchant loyalty point partnership. The request may specify various partnership parameters to include in the partnership smart contract. The blockchain API host may create the partnership smart contract and write the partnership smart contract to a blockchain. One or more qualified merchants may join the partnership smart contract to make the partnership active. In response to a customer completing a plurality of purchases that complete the partnership parameters of the partnership smart contract, the system may issue the customer a purchase reward which may include a loyalty point payout.

PlanningG06Q 30/0229H04L 9/0637H04L 9/3236H04L 9/3239H04L 9/3247H04L 9/3297H04L 9/50H04L 2209/56

AI classification

Planning0.82
Knowledge representation0.37
AI hardware0.22
Machine learning0.01
Natural language0.00
Evolutionary computation0.00
Vision0.00
Speech0.00

Ownership

AMERICAN EXPRESS TRAVEL RELATED SERVICES COMPANY, INC.

assignment · 480610496

Assignors

CHAN, CALVIN, CRACCHIOLO, CHRISTOPHER, FERENCZI, ANDRAS, NAIK, HARISH R., BAAL THOMAS, ANDREW MARTIN

On an employer assignment, the assignors are typically the inventors.

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