Patents Assigned to Auto Gas Systems, Inc.
  • Patent number: 6885996
    Abstract: A method of providing multiple level, price-per-unit (PPU) discounts on gasoline to a customer who purchases at least one cross-marketed product at a point of sale (POS) checkout. The customer is awarded a first PPU discount on the gasoline based on a purchase by the customer of a first cross-marketed product, and is awarded a second PPU discount based on the purchase of a second cross-marketed product. The first discount is then added to the second discount to determine a total PPU discount. The total discount is stored in a discounts issued database. When the customer redeems the discount, the total discount is retrieved from the discounts issued database, and the gasoline station then reduces the PPU of the gasoline by an amount equal to the total discount. Portions of the discount redeemed are then allocated to vendors of the first and second cross-marketed products according to predetermined criteria.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 26, 2004
    Date of Patent: April 26, 2005
    Assignee: Auto Gas Systems, Inc.
    Inventor: G. Randy Nicholson
  • Patent number: 6778967
    Abstract: A system and method of cross-selling products and increasing fuel sales at a fuel service station. A price-per-unit (PPU) discount for fuel is associated with a purchase of a non-fuel product. A display screen at the dispenser then informs the customer of the PPU discount and that a future purchase of fuel can be currently made at today's price, or may be purchased over the Internet at a later time. The system determines whether the customer ordered a non-fuel product or future fuel, and records the customer's orders. The system then accepts the customer's payment for the non-fuel product and the future fuel, and discounts the PPU of the fuel by the amount associated with the purchase of the non-fuel product during a current fuel purchase by the customer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 5, 1999
    Date of Patent: August 17, 2004
    Assignee: Auto Gas Systems, Inc.
    Inventor: G. Randy Nicholson