Abstract
This defensive publication's revision adds a third gift cargo and claims 8–11 to a dual-currency gift system in which peer-to-peer money gifts and non-transferable, expiring time pledges run as one economy with no exchange rate. The system also carries prepaid item gift codes, bought at a shop's own price, beside per-person recognition balances that cannot be bought, transferred or cashed. Each thank-you message's recognition amount is computed only from the message (its words, a sender-chosen sentiment marker, its recorded length, the parties it names, and a model's refinement within a fixed band), never from any money amount, item, price, length of time or pledge size; a scoring model receives the text with amounts and durations replaced. A participation signal reads only those balances' zero-crossing frequency and amplitude. Only original thanks move a balance; endorsements, transfers with no thank and spends from a forward-only fund move none. The recognition balance can never be redeemed for, buy, unlock or discount money, time or an item gift code, and none of them can buy it. The only exchange rate among the four kinds of value is a merchant's own price for its own item, applied only on the money–item edge: the code's sale, conversion of an unredeemed code into that merchant's store credit (never cash) at the greater of the price paid and the current price, and money sized against an item. Each gift message carries one payment type. Prior-art censuses and limits are reported. Claims 1–7 are retained as disclosed.
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Recommended Citation
Ly, Thon, "The Incommensurability-Preserving Coupler: A Non-Purchasable Recognition Balance Sized Only from the Thank-You Message, Beside Money Gifts, Time Pledges and Prepaid Item Gift Codes, with the Merchant's Own Item Price as the Only Exchange Rate and One Payment Type per Gift Message", Technical Disclosure Commons, ()
https://www.tdcommons.org/dpubs_series/12061