Abstract: Systems and methods are provided for dispensing coupons in response to a purchase request for a requested good or service received from a consumer. A processing system executes a coupon dispensing application to manage the dispensing of coupons. The coupon dispensing application communicates with a coupon management system to identify available coupons for the requested good or service in response to the purchase request. The coupon dispensing application may also communicate with a benefit provider system to determine a benefit amount provided to the consumer for the requested good or service. The coupon dispensing application determines a payment amount for the requested good or service based on an available coupon, a determined benefit amount, and/or a purchase amount for the requested good or service.

Abstract: A configurable distributed information sharing system includes a process for controlling the sharing of data entities among a plurality of interconnected computers including one or more servers and a plurality of client computers. As transactions are processed by the client computers, the client computers log new data records, modified data records, and deleted data records. During communication sessions with servers, the client computers convey the changed data entities to the server for relay to other client computers according to a data sharing table. The data sharing table includes a data source column listing all data sending computers, a data destination column matching all data receiving computers with data sending computers from which they will receive changed data, and a data identification column matching all the types of data that will be shared among specific data sending and data receiving computers.