Patents by Inventor Mark W. Kanter

Mark W. Kanter has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Referral recognition system for an incentive award program
    Patent number: 5537314
    Abstract: A credit accumulation and accessing system for a plurality of sponsoring companies and participants having at each sponsoring company location (14, 16), a common bus (26), which communicates with participant data input (28), performance data input (34), computer processing (24), memory (30), an award output device (36), and an input/output device (32). Input/output device (32) may connect to a central control center (12), and/or a plurality of second sponsoring companies (14, 16), and/or a plurality of financial institutions (94), through communication lines (38). Sponsoring company, participant, and performance data, along with award conversion tables, pyramidal association tables, award applicable merchandise UPC codes, financial-institution-issued lines of credit and computer operational programming, are stored.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 23, 1995
    Date of Patent: July 16, 1996
    Assignee: First Marketrust Intl.
    Inventor: Mark W. Kanter