58 results about "Gift card" patented technology

Disclosed are systems, methods, and techniques for purchasing and activating a decoupled gift card. A system can include: a first gift card component of a first type having a first identifier, a second gift card component of a second type separate from the first component and having a second identifier, the second component being configured to attach to the first component to form a decoupled gift card purchasable during a checkout process, a point of sale (POS) terminal that scans the first and second identifiers during checkout, and a remote computer system that can activate the decoupled gift card while the checkout process is performed. The remote system can receive the scanned identifiers, identify a gift card number corresponding to the first scanned identifier, identify an access token corresponding to the second scanned identifier, and associate the gift card number with the access token to activate the decoupled gift card.

The disclosed techniques provide for purchasing a decoupled gift card. Operations can include: receiving, from a point of sale (POS) terminal, user input to purchase a decoupled gift card, presenting, in a user interface (UI) at the POS terminal, instructions to scan a first identifier associated with a first gift card component, receiving, from a scanning device, the scanned first identifier, presenting second instructions to assemble the first gift card component with a second gift card component to create the decoupled gift card and scan a second identifier associated with the second gift card component, receiving the scanned second identifier, transmitting, to a backend system, the scanned first and second identifiers to determine whether the first and second gift card components are pre-authorized to create the decoupled gift card, receiving, from the backend system, information indicating the components are pre-authorized, and completing the purchase of the decoupled gift card.

A gift card system and method for purchasing both physical and digital gift cards at a kiosk, both physical and virtual, is disclosed. The system / method includes a gift card distribution kiosk located at a retail establishment or online that provides a user with access to a multitude of different forms of gift cards that may be purchased and printed onto a customizable card with a personalized message. The kiosk includes a kiosk processor interface, a gift card dispenser, a card reader and gift card management server connected to a network. The gift card management server, through the kiosk processor interface, provides vendor options to users to select and pay via the card reader. The kiosk may be used to redeem unused user gift cards for a reduced value user selected gift card, reduced cash value, full value store card, rewards points, bank debit, and / or electronic code user towards online purchases.

Disclosed combinable gift card components for a gift card purchase. A gift card can include a card component having a front surface, a back surface, a window, and a first identifier, and a secure insert component having: a secure insert portion with a second identifier, teeth at a leading edge of the secure insert component to mate with corresponding teeth of a middle layer of the card component for fixed alignment of the secure insert component inside the card component, an adhesive-resistant covering that can fold over the secure insert portion to hide the second identifier before the secure insert component is inserted into the card component, and a tab affixed to an end of the adhesive-resistant covering that can be pulled to cause the adhesive-resistant covering to unfold out from inside the card component to reveal the second identifier through the window.

The invention discloses a gift giving method and device, computer equipment and a computer readable storage medium. The gift giving method comprises the steps of displaying a plurality of candidate gift giving purposes; in response to a selection operation for the target gift purpose, displaying a plurality of candidate commodities under the commodity attributes corresponding to the target gift purpose; in response to a gift giving operation for the target candidate commodity, generating a target gift card based on gift giving information for the target candidate commodity, and sending the target gift card to a user session window of the giver account and the gift giving object account through the giver account, and enabling the gift object account to obtain the target candidate commodity through the target gift card. According to the embodiment of the invention, the interactive mode of interaction between users is enriched, the current user is helped to select the proper commodity more conveniently for presentation, various requirements of the user are met, and the use experience of the user is improved.

Implementations and examples described herein provide for integrating gift cards and gift card transactions into payment flows that include general payment networks, providing the functionality of closed-loop gift card systems within the wider payment networks and allowing for the use of gift cards with additional payment methods.

Disclosed are systems, methods, and techniques for combinable gift card components during a checkout process in a retail environment. A gift card can include a first gift card component of a first type, the first gift card component including a first identifier (e.g., barcode), and a second gift card component of a second type that can be different from the first type and separate from the first gift card component, having a second identifier. The first and second identifiers can be scanned and used to associate the first gift card component with the second gift card component. The second gift card component can be an envelope or sleeve that can be a similar size and / or a similar shape as the first gift card component. The second gift card component can permanently attach to the first gift card component during the checkout process to form the gift card.

To provide an electronic commerce system and an electronic commerce program that enable a seller who sells merchandise via gift cards to easily grasp merchandise stock and supply schedules and to quickly respond when receiving a merchandise delivery request from a recipient of the gift card. [Solution] The electronic commerce system 1 reads the product code 26 on the gift card 25, views the delivery schedule information, and when the product delivery date is selected, if the number of products supplied and ordered for that delivery date matches, alert information indicating that delivery is not possible is included in the delivery schedule information and sent to the store terminal 22 of the product seller.

The utility model discloses a single-device gift card management circuit, and relates to the technical field of gift card circuits. According to the utility model, only one device is supported for use, and eight gift rods are exclusively used for selecting and purchasing gift hangers; an independent external system is provided with a window and an entity key expansion board, so that the setting system can be conveniently moved to the outside for operation, and the application flexibility is improved; a single card is driven and isolated by a two-stage inverter 74HC04, then enters a pi-type resistor-capacitor network for filtering, and then drives two groups of serial price nixie tubes for display; when a single card is designed, an inverter is inserted to drive isolation, so that the communication quality is enhanced, and an anti-interference effect can also be achieved when the single card is applied to a scene with relatively strong electromagnetic interference; the single card is connected in an independent mode, pulse input, pulse output, signal response, interlocking, handshaking and the like are all independent plug connectors, the single card has the advantage of being more concise and clear on a connecting line, the technical requirement threshold is lowered, and the single card is more popular.

The utility model relates to a gift card modeling, especially a three -dimensional greeting card of folding surface type, solved the card type gift basket structure design problem. Including card body, the card body has by upper and lower distribution folding part, frame portion and support portion in proper order, folding part is along frame portion top outer edge interval arrangement several, frame portion is closed annular structure, frame portion also has unfolding state and folding state, when unfolding state, frame portion along annular path even props open and forms the hollowed out middle part empty warehouse, when folding state, frame portion symmetrical adhesion forms the flat plane. Design is ingenious, unfolds conveniently, has shown the flavor of traditional gift box also, has modern decorative style also, fills seat modern individualized demand, and convenient production and processing, economic and suitable for use.

An enhanced gift card and system include the enhanced gift card and prizes. One of each or multiple of the prizes are pre-assigned to one of the enhanced gift cards. After a purchaser buys the enhanced gift card and either uses or gifts the enhanced gift card to someone, a test is made to see if the enhanced gift card was purchased and if this enhanced gift card is associated with a prize and, if so, the prize is awarded to the purchaser or recipient. In one embodiment, an indication of the prize is on the enhanced gift card and occluded by material that is scratched off to reveal the prize.

This provides an e-commerce system and program that enables sellers who sell goods via gift cards to easily understand product inventory and supply schedules when receiving delivery requests from gift card recipients, thereby enabling a quick response. [Solution] The e-commerce system 1 reads the product code 26 of the gift card 25, and when a delivery date for the product is selected after viewing the delivery schedule information, if the supply of the product on that delivery date matches the number of orders, it includes an alert message indicating that delivery is not possible in the delivery schedule information and sends it to the product seller's store terminal 22.

Systems and methods for facilitating real-time item-specific application of a gift card balance to a purchase within a collaborative gift card network are described. In some cases, a system for omni-channel item-level promotional offer adjudication is provided, which may include a distributed ledger (in some cases having a plurality of nodes, a transaction log, and a consensus algorithm), a retail system having a payment module, and an adjudication module that enables the retail system to access the distributed ledger. In some cases, the adjudication module is configured to: receive and store item-level information relating to one or more inventory items for which use of a one-time-use coupon code is authorized; receive a purchase request comprising a payment amount and information concerning an item for purchase; receive a one-time-use coupon code; and read the transaction log of the distributed ledger to check whether the one-time-use coupon code has already been redeemed.

1. Name of the product in this design: Gift Card (Crab Spirit). 2. Purpose of this design: As a gift card. 3. The key design elements of this product are the combination of shape, pattern, and color. 4. The picture or photo that best illustrates the key design points: Design 1 front view. 5. The design for which protection is sought includes color. 6. This design is a thin product, so the top view of Design 1 is omitted; the bottom view of Design 1 is omitted; the left view of Design 1 is omitted; the right view of Design 1 is omitted; the top view of Design 2 is omitted; the bottom view of Design 2 is omitted; the left view of Design 2 is omitted; the right view of Design 2 is omitted. 7. Design 1 is designated as the basic design.

1. The name of the design product: gift certificate (fashion collection dimension gift certificate). 2. The use of the design product: the product involved in the present design is used for prize coupons. 3. The design points of the design product: the combination of patterns and colors. 4. The picture or photo that best indicates the design points: front view. 5. The present design is a thin product, and the left view, right view, top view and bottom view are omitted. 6. Other circumstances that need to be explained: the present design requests protection of color.

Systems and methods for managing and operating secure cryptocurrency or digital currency devices that mimics traditional open loop gift card aesthetics and capabilities, with significant additional capabilities that give them the benefits of cash while still being able to store and receive varying amounts of funds in a single physical instance.

1. Name of the Design Product: Graphic User Interface for Fan-linked Sales of Electronic Devices. 2. Use of the Design Product: An electronic device. 3. Design Key Points of the Design Product: Lies in the graphic user interface. 4. Picture or Photograph that Best Illustrates the Design Key Points: Variation State Diagram 1. 5. This design product is a flat product, and the left view, right view, top view, bottom view, and rear view are omitted. 6. Human-computer Interaction Method of the Graphic User Interface: The graphic user interfaces shown in the front view and each variation state diagram are all content interfaces for fan-linked sales displayed on the electronic device. The front view shows the cloud private screening activity interface. The upper half of the interface shows the activity cover, and the lower half shows the private screening list of each star; the right side of the list shows the "Get Now" button, and the bottom of the interface shows the "Share" button and the "I Want to Do a Private Screening" button; click the "I Want to Do a Private Screening" button in the front view, and Variation State Diagram 1 is displayed. The upper-middle part of the interface can select the private screening card face, the lower-middle part of the interface can select seats, and the "Book Now" button is displayed in the lower right corner of the interface; after selecting the private screening card face and seats, click the "Book Now" button in Variation State Diagram 1, and Variation State Diagram 2 is displayed. A payment floating window pops up at the bottom of the interface. The "Recharge" button is displayed at the bottom of the payment floating window; click the "Recharge" button in Variation State Diagram 2 to make a payment; after the payment is completed, Variation State Diagram 3 is displayed, and a gift card collection floating window pops up on the interface. The "Share" button is displayed at the bottom of the gift card collection floating window. The gray areas in the front view and each variation state diagram are deleted content pictures, and "XX" represents text or numbers. In the actual use process of the front view and each variation state diagram, the interface content displayed can be correspondingly referred to the respective reference diagrams.

Implementations and examples described herein provide for integrating gift cards and gift card transactions into payment flows that include general payment networks, providing the functionality of closed-loop gift card systems within the wider payment networks and allowing for the use of gift cards with additional payment methods.

1. Name of this design product: Graphical user interface for electronic equipment for giving electronic gift cards. 2. Purpose of this design product: an electronic device. 3. The key design point of this design product lies in the part of the graphical user interface in the electronic device for which protection is sought. 4. The picture or photo that best illustrates the key points of the design: main view. 5. The electronic equipment is of conventional design and other figures are omitted. 6. Purpose of the Graphical User Interface: The product interface is the interface for displaying and interacting with the gifting of electronic gift cards; it is used for users to edit and give electronic gift cards; the main view interface is the interactive interface for users to select gift cards; in the main view interface, clicking the Customize Card Design and Record Voice Blessing buttons will bring you to the Customize Card Design interface, where Interface Change Status Diagram 1 will be displayed; in Interface Change Status Diagram 1, clicking the "Confirm Use of Image" button will bring up Interface Change Status Diagram 2; in Interface Change Status Diagram 2, clicking the "Skip / Confirm Use of Voice" button will bring up Interface Change Status Diagram 3; in Interface Change Status Diagram 3, clicking the "Confirm Payment" button will bring up Interface Change Status Diagram 4.

This invention discloses an enhanced NFC antenna structure, including a flexible circuit board, an NFC chip, an antenna, and a card. The flexible circuit board is fixedly connected to the inner cavity of the card, and the NFC chip is fixedly connected to the surface of the flexible circuit board. A multi-turn closed antenna is disposed on the surface of the card, and the antenna is connected to the NFC chip. This invention increases the number of antenna turns from the conventional 2-3 turns to 5 turns, widens the antenna width from 0.2mm to 0.35mm, and increases the overall sensing area of ​​the antenna from a 2mm reduction in the card edge to only a 0.5mm reduction, maximizing the use of the card edge space. This improves coupling efficiency and increases the sensing range from 1.5cm to 3.2cm in the test environment, with a sensitivity increase of over 100%. Therefore, it exhibits stronger sensing performance when communicating with low-power devices, with significantly improved sensing range and sensitivity. It can be widely used in near-field communication scenarios such as access control, identity verification, and gift card activation.

A method of gift card security and authentication, having steps including the generation of an authentication passcode by utilizing data generated or obtained at the point of sale. Currently there is a problem in the industry of value on gift cards being stolen by individuals with prior access to hidden information on gift cards. This method prevents this type of fraud by requiring the generation or use of live data at the point of sale in order to monitor the value of a gift card. Because the data is obtained or generated at the point of sale, the fraudsters cannot perpetrate their scheme, as they cannot obtain the necessary information prior to the sale.

The disclosed technology may include a system including one or more processors and memory coupled with the one or more processors, the memory storing executable instructions that when executed by the one or more processors cause the one or more processors to effectuate operations comprising: receiving an audio input comprising a natural language request from a user for a digital gift card, determining request information based on the audio input, determining, by querying a database of available gift cards, a proposed gift card based on the request information, generating a digital representation of the proposed gift card, and transmitting the digital representation of the gift card to a recipient device.

Systems and methods for managing and operating secure cryptocurrency or digital currency devices that mimics traditional open loop gift card aesthetics and capabilities, with significant additional capabilities that give them the benefits of cash while still being able to store and receive varying amounts of funds in a single physical instance.

Unlike rule based offer generation in state of the art, a method and system for personalized promotion offer generation by understanding customer buying intent to maximize return on investment is disclosed. Product and associated customer details are obtained from product catalog and transaction data. RFM score is computed based on transaction data to create customer segments capturing demographics behavioral data for customer. A tree based ensemble classifier predicts promotion offer redemption probability for each customer segment. The linear optimization model assigns an optimal number of promotion offers, to attain an increasing profit margin, thereby generating offers as per relevance. Budget constraint is applied so that maximum revenue can be attained. The final per customer allocation of the offer is based on different rules of personalization as required from the industry. The eligibility of getting gift card is computed by setting threshold of what customer should spend to get gift card.

The system may provide an access function to a customer device. The system may receive, from the customer device, a request for the business function via the access function. The system may provide, to the customer device, the business function. The access function may include at least one of a QR code, a link in an SMS text, a link in an email, an NFC tag or a NFC tap that provides a business function for a business. The business function may include issuing a coupon, validating the coupon, enrolling in a loyalty program, issuing points in the loyalty program, providing a review request, setting a reminder, adding to a promotions list, downloading an app, connecting on social media, sending a payment link, booking an appointment, sending a survey, sending a gift account, enrolling in a birthday club and joining a referral program.

To ensure security in selling gift cards without requiring a sales counter or salesperson for selling gift cards. [Solution] A vending machine that is connected via a network to a payment management device that provides an electronic payment service and sells gift cards that can be used with the electronic payment service, the vending machine comprising: a discrimination unit that determines the amount of the gift card that the user wishes to purchase based on input from the user; a request unit that requests the payment management device to generate a gift code for charging electronic money equivalent to the amount of the gift card; a gift code acquisition unit that acquires the gift code from the payment management device; and a printing unit that prints the gift code on the gift card.

An enhanced gift card and system include the enhanced gift card and prizes. One of each or multiple of the prizes are pre-assigned to one of the enhanced gift cards. After a purchaser buys the enhanced gift card and either uses or gifts the enhanced gift card to someone, a test is made to see if the enhanced gift card was purchased and if this enhanced gift card is associated with a prize and, if so, the prize is awarded to the purchaser or recipient. In one embodiment, an indication of the prize is on the enhanced gift card and occluded by material that is scratched off to reveal the prize.

An aspect of the present invention includes an improved greeting card useable in connection with method for transferring a gift using a gift-transfer application. A digital gift can be associated with a unique tag identifier on a gift item, and the unique tag identifier can be used to retrieve the digital gift. Specifically, the method includes associating the unique tag identifier with an electronic gift of a particular monetary value and using a payment portal to charge a financial account an amount equal to the monetary value. The method further includes the gift-transfer application receiving a request including the unique tag identifier to redeem the electronic gift and, in response, sending a plurality of value-allocation links along with respective options for applying the monetary value to an electronic gift card of a respective merchant.

A pop-up gift card includes a card that is foldable along a fold line between closed and opened positions. The card includes a separable perforated section extending over both sides of the fold line. An erectable pop-up display structure comprising a plurality of intersecting slice-form elements is mounted on the perforated section of the card. When the card is closed, the pop-up display structure is in a flattened state, and when the card is opened, the pop-up display structure is in an erected 3-D state. The pop-up display structure can be removed from the card by separating the perforated section from the rest of the card. A support element can be affixed to the perforated section for maintaining the pop-up display structure in the 3-D state when the pop-up display structure is removed from the card.

Implementations and examples described herein provide for prepaid gift cards, and processing of prepaid gift cards, having security measures to prevent fraudulent redemption of the prepaid gift cards.