Did You Know...
...that the video game, Pong, was invented by a guy who graduated at the bottom of his engineering class? Nolan Bushnell spent more time running the games at a local amusement park than he did on his studies at the University of Utah. His dreams of working for Disney's amusement empire were dashed when the company wouldn't hire him. Taking a boring job, Nolan daydreamed about electronic versions of popular games. He invented Pong, the first video game, and went on to found Atari Co.
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| 7464050 | Method and system for facilitating consumer purchases A method for use in marketing includes detecting, at a remote computer, product purchase information of a plurality of retail stores. The product purchase information includes price information. The remote computer is located remote from the retail store. The method... | 12/09/2008 |
| 6611811 | Method and system for accumulating marginal discounts and applying an associated incentive upon achieving threshold A method for customer promotion includes sequentially processing each of a plurality of items in a customer order. The price of each item is accumulated after processing. A marginal discount associated with each item processed is generated. This marginal ... | 08/26/2003 |
| 6609104 | Method and system for accumulating marginal discounts and applying an associated incentive A method for customer promotion includes sequentially processing each of a plurality of items in a customer order. A marginal discount associated with each item is determined. All unapplied marginal discounts are accumulated for application to the custome... | 08/19/2003 |
| 6516302 | Method and system for accumulating marginal discounts and applying an associated incentive upon achieving one of a plurality of thresholds A method for customer promotion includes sequentially receiving signals indicative of respective bar codes of a plurality of items in a customer order. The price of each item is accumulated. A marginal discount associated with each item processed is gener... | 02/04/2003 |
| 6292786 | Method and system for generating incentives based on substantially real-time product purchase information A method for use in marketing includes receiving at a remote location through the Internet, substantially real-time product purchase information from a retail store in conjunction with an identification code of a customer purchasing the parts at a point-o... | 09/18/2001 |
