Personalized Gift Card Templates With Digital Images

a gift card and digital image technology, applied in the field of personalized gift card templates with digital images, can solve the problems of limited display and inventory space, limited retail stores, and unaccustomed gift card customers

Inactive Publication Date: 2010-04-22
WALGREEN CO
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Benefits of technology

Enhances the perceived value of gift cards, increases sales by allowing personalized designs, and facilitates cross-promotional opportunities between retail stores through customizable and redeemable gift cards, optimizing limited store space with networked retail systems.

Problems solved by technology

While some gift cards may include patterns or designs on the card stock, these patterns are provided by stock suppliers that are pre-printed on the material of the gift card and are not selected for printing by the customer.
Moreover, a gift card customer may be unaccustomed to thinking of gift card design when purchasing.
However, existing retail stores generally must address limited display and inventory space within their stores for the products that they carry.
Thus, existing retails stores may be limited in the number of cross selling arrangements that they may be involved in.

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[0015]Although the following text sets forth a detailed description of numerous different embodiments, it should be understood that the legal scope of the invention is defined by the words of the claims set forth at the end of this patent. The detailed description is to be construed as exemplary only and does not describe every possible embodiment since describing every possible embodiment would be impractical, if not impossible. Numerous alternative embodiments could be implemented, using either current technology or technology developed after the filing date of this patent, which would still fall within the scope of the claims.

[0016]It should also be understood that, unless a term is expressly defined in this patent using the sentence “As used herein, the term ‘______’ is hereby defined to mean . . . ” or a similar sentence, there is no intent to limit the meaning of that term, either expressly or by implication, beyond its plain or ordinary meaning, and such term should not be in...

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Abstract

A customizable gift card that may be designed using a plurality of design templates that have modifiable fields and layouts. The gift cards may be designated for use at one or more stores based on contract arrangements between the stores and a vendor of the gift card. The gift card may be adapted to be used exclusively at the designated stores. At least one template field of at least a portion of a plurality of design templates is modifiable by a customer based on a vendor based rule set. A user provided photo is printed on the gift card and is selected by the user from either a digital photo album on the Internet, one or more user provided photos inputted via a scanner, or one or more user provided photos stored on a computer-readable medium.

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CROSS-REFERENCE TO RELATED PATENT APPLICATIONS[0001]This application is a continuation of U.S. application Ser. No. 11 / 586,391, filed Oct. 25, 2006, the disclosure of which is incorporated herein by reference.FIELD OF THE INVENTION[0002]The invention generally relates to a system for and method of creating customized gift cards at a point of sale location.BACKGROUND[0003]Existing gift cards are generally not provided with aesthetic design except for their load value (i.e., amount placed on the card) and / or company logos. While some gift cards may include patterns or designs on the card stock, these patterns are provided by stock suppliers that are pre-printed on the material of the gift card and are not selected for printing by the customer. Moreover, a gift card customer may be unaccustomed to thinking of gift card design when purchasing. For example, gift card customers may simply consider how much to put on the gift card and which gift card stock to use from the limited selection...

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Patent Type & AuthorityApplications(United States)
IPC IPC(8): G06F17/00
CPCG07F17/42G06Q20/3558
InventorTORIAN, JENNIFER M.
OwnerWALGREEN CO