Michael Slaby

US Patent:

20110047039, Feb 24, 2011

Filed:

Aug 2, 2010

Appl. No.:

12/848958

Inventors:

Michelle Melinda Crames - Los Angeles CA, US
Tim Millen - Walnut Creek CA, US
Diane Reichenberger - Los Angeles CA, US
Michael Slaby - Evanston IL, US
William Dustin Young - Denver CO, US

International Classification:

G06Q 30/00
G06Q 20/00

US Classification:

705 18, 705 272

Abstract:

A first person can give a gift by using a mobile phone or other communications device to access a central computing system to which a gift and a second person (the intended recipient of the gift) can be identified by the first person. Thereafter, the central computing system transmits a unique code to the mobile phone or other communications device of the second person. The code can then be given by the second person, verbally or by transmission or display by his/her mobile phone, to a retailer of the gift. Upon validation by the retailer, such as by communication between the retailer's point-of-sale system and the central computing system, the retailer provides the gift identified by the first person.