ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,561,719, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to EDATANETWORKS INC. (Calgary, Canada).
"System and methods for changing operation modes in a loyalty program" was invented by Terrance Patrick Tietzen (Edmonton, Canada) and Matthew Arnold Macpherson Bates (Beaumont, Canada).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for changing operation modes includes receiving disaster information from trending data, a newsfeed, or an alert message; upon detecting at least one redirection trigger from the disaster information, configuring a loyalty system to operate in a redirection mode; receiving or accessing data associated with a transaction between a custom...