METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR REDEEMING AN ECONOMIC INCENTIVE
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Dec 6, 2007
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May 31, 2007
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Jun 1, 2006
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A method and apparatus for redeeming an economic incentive is described. One illustrative embodiment receives in a portable electronic device an economic incentive associated with a merchant; displays the economic incentive on a display of the portable electronic device; and transmits over a network a message from the portable electronic device to a computer associated with the merchant in response to a user's selection of the displayed economic incentive, the message indicating a request by the user for the economic incentive to be applied to a user purchase automatically by a point-of-sale computer of the merchant upon authentication of the user by the point-of-sale computer during a subsequent visit of the user to a store of the merchant.
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