Indirect customer identification system and method
CA 2579095 C · Owner: Best Buy Enterprise Services, Inc. · Inventors: Peters, David W.
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A database system and method is presented that updates a retail transaction database for each transaction by extracting a name from a payment mechanism. Associations already made between the customer records the transactions , database, and the payment account database are used in conjunction with the extracted name to create additional associations between customers and transactions and between customers and payment accounts. In addition new , customer records can be created by searching demographic databases using the reserve append name and data associated with the transaction already in the database.
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- Filed August 30, 2005 and granted October 21, 2014. A Canadian patent filed from October 1, 1989 lasts 20 years from filing, so its term ended August 30, 2025.
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