| 6540143 |
System and method for recovering bar code errors |
| Apr-1-2003 |
A system and method that facilitates the recovery of bar code scanning errors due to irregularities in the bar code. When a bar code scanning error occurs, the system displays the erroneously scanned bar... |
| 6535119 |
System and method of managing failure of an electronic shelf label to respond to a message |
| Mar-18-2003 |
A system and method of managing failure of an electronic shelf label to respond to a message which conserves system bandwidth. The system includes an electronic shelf label which fails to respond to a... |
| 6533173 |
Product Locator and Price checking system |
| Mar-18-2003 |
A product locator system to permit a user of a first computer to received data stored in a second computer. The data stored in the second computer relates to the location of products and in addition may... |
| 6510989 |
Price check assistant |
| Jan-28-2003 |
A method for assisting the recall of retail good information in a point of sale (POS) system can include the steps of scanning an identifier associated with a retail good; searching a translation table... |
| 6507822 |
Method and apparatus for managing the sale of aging products |
| Jan-14-2003 |
A store controller stores a series of prices for a product and respective effective periods during which the prices are effective. A customer submits an offer to buy the product at an "offer price" that... |
| 6496805 |
Method of temporarily displaying information by an electronic price label |
| Dec-17-2002 |
A method of temporarily displaying information by an electronic price label which avoids resending previously-displayed information. The method implemented by the electronic price label includes receiving... |
| 6484158 |
Dynamic rule based market research database |
| Nov-19-2002 |
A market research database includes first and second information sets. The first information set contains first market research information, and the second information set contains second market research... |
| 6471125 |
Method of tracking produce selection data |
| Oct-29-2002 |
A method of tracking produce selection data which minimizes fraud. The method includes the steps of receiving produce identification information, including a number of possible candidates, displaying the... |
| 6469617 |
Method of restoring information for display by an electronic price label |
| Oct-22-2002 |
A method of restoring display information to an electronic price label which stores temporarily removed display information and sends it to the electronic price label following a temporary period. The... |
| 6445370 |
Electronic price label and method of graphically displaying relative information by an electronic price label |
| Sep-3-2002 |
An electronic price label which displays relative information, such as employee-directed business information. The electronic price label includes a liquid crystal display and control circuitry. The liquid... |
| 6442531 |
Method of changing an electronic price label display sequence |
| Aug-27-2002 |
An electronic price label (EPL) display sequence change method which conserves system bandwidth. The method determines a number of pieces of information which are currently stored within a memory in an... |
| 6430704 |
System and method of reporting a status of another system through an electronic price label system |
| Aug-6-2002 |
A system and method of reporting a status of another system through an electronic price label (EPL). The system includes the EPL and a computer coupled to the EPL which monitors the status of the second... |
| 6427138 |
Methods and apparatus for providing an electronic price label countdown timer |
| Jul-30-2002 |
Techniques for informing customers of impending price changes of items in a retail establishment are described. An EPL computer reads an EPL data file to determine when an upcoming price change for an... |
| 6415263 |
System and methods for determining and displaying product pricing |
| Jul-2-2002 |
A system for determining and displaying product pricing for an item comprises a price checker object for gathering and assembling pricing information associated with the item. A store price object coupled... |
| 6397193 |
Method and apparatus for automatically vending a combination of products |
| May-28-2002 |
The present invention relates to a method and apparatus for automatically delivering a combination of products from a vending machine at a package price. The method of the present invention includes the... |
| 6366960 |
Method and apparatus for interactively providing information at multiple sites |
| Apr-2-2002 |
A method and apparatus are provided for interactively providing selected messages asynchronously at a plurality of separate sites. At least one message is stored in an addressable memory for each site... |
| 6363354 |
Maintenance system, and recording medium recording thereon a maintenance program, for a plurality of price look-up tables |
| Mar-26-2002 |
A POS server apparatus stores, in response to entry of PLU data, data consisting of a combination of revision history information on those PLU data and revised data into a master PLU history management... |
| 6360207 |
System and method of consolidating information for display by electronic price labels |
| Mar-19-2002 |
A system and method of consolidating information for display which relies on codes. The system includes a database including a plurality of types of information besides price to be displayed by an electronic... |
| 6338067 |
Product/service hierarchy database for market competition and investment analysis |
| Jan-8-2002 |
A product hierarchy database organizes company market performance and stock investment information by the products and services produced and offered by each competitor. The companies that produce each... |
| 6317724 |
Method of temporarily changing an electronic price label display sequence |
| Nov-13-2001 |
A temporary display sequence change method which keeps track of replaced data. A first sequence for displaying first pieces of information by an EPL is determined. A second sequence by which the EPL currently... |
| 6301565 |
System and method of verifying graphically displayed relative information |
| Oct-9-2001 |
An electronic price label relative information verification system which ensures that first business information for an item is equal to second business information assigned to the electronic price label... |
| 6269342 |
Programmable shelf tag system |
| Jul-31-2001 |
An electronic pricing and display system using programmable electronic shelf tags. Programmable electronic shelf tags are used in connection with apparatus for programming the electronic shelf tags. Pricing... |
| 6263318 |
Contents sales method and cyber mall system using such method and storage medium storing therein its contents sales program |
| Jul-17-2001 |
A cyber mall system has a contents sales apparatus for selling digital contents, a contents purchasing apparatus, and a network for connecting those components. When the digital contents are registered... |
| 6260023 |
Transaction processing system including a networked produce recognition system |
| Jul-10-2001 |
A transaction processing system which includes a produce recognition server for identifying produce items. The produce recognition system further includes a checkout system including a transaction processing... |
| 6256615 |
Method of assigning electronic shelf labels to price lookup file items |
| Jul-3-2001 |
A price maintenance system and method in which price information entered into or read from a price-lookup file is shared to avoid price mismatch. The price-lookup file and price changes to the price-lookup... |
| 6253208 |
Information access |
| Jun-26-2001 |
An information access system is provided to create and maintain a rapidly accessible index to information extracted from information sources accessible over the Internet. The information access system... |
| 6253190 |
Programmable shelf tag and method for changing and updating shelf tag information |
| Jun-26-2001 |
A shelf tag comprising a liquid crystal display having optical states which are stable without power and an interface that allows for each character element to be programmed easily by sweeping a programming... |
| 6246995 |
Product activity data collection system |
| Jun-12-2001 |
A system and method are provided for collecting activity data for a plurality of products displayed in a merchandising store. A transaction terminal identifies a product presented for purchase and prints... |
| 6243690 |
Electronic price label including a plurality of separately addressable displays |
| Jun-5-2001 |
An electronic price label (EPL) which includes a plurality of separately-addressable displays. The EPL includes a housing, a first display identified by a first unique identification number, a second display... |
| 6182054 |
Dynamically configurable and extensible rating engine |
| Jan-30-2001 |
A method and apparatus to create billing records in a rating engine. The method comprising the steps of assembling one or more sets of subscriber information; assembling a rating plan; associating a rating... |
| 6173268 |
Method of displaying temporary information by an electronic price label |
| Jan-9-2001 |
A method of displaying temporary information by an electronic price label (EPL) which saves bandwidth and time. The method includes the steps of receiving a message containing second information by the... |
| 6169493 |
Shelf talker management system and method |
| Jan-2-2001 |
A system and method of installing and removing shelf talkers which works in connection with electronic price labels. The system includes a bar code reader for reading first bar code labels of first items... |
| 6167327 |
Pricing control system for multi-operation vending machines |
| Dec-26-2000 |
A pricing control system for multi-operation vending machines, such as those commonly found in laundromat facilities, incorporates an offset price setting field for storing at least one incremental offset... |
| 6161122 |
Method and apparatus for interactively providing information at multiple sites |
| Dec-12-2000 |
A method and apparatus are provided for interactively providing selected site-specific messages asynchronously at a plurality of separate sites. At least one site-specific message is stored in an addressable... |
| 6154738 |
Methods and apparatus for disseminating product information via the internet using universal product codes |
| Nov-28-2000 |
Methods and apparatus for disseminating over the Internet product information produced and maintained by product manufacturers using existing universal product codes (bar codes) as access keys. A cross-referencing... |
| 6144949 |
Radio frequency communication system with subscribers arranged to authenticate a received message |
| Nov-7-2000 |
A radio frequency communication system subscriber (110) has a unique identification code, public key and private key, and stores the identification code and public key for other system subscribers in its... |
| 6119100 |
Method and apparatus for managing the sale of aging products |
| Sep-12-2000 |
A store controller stores a series of prices for a product and respective effective periods during which the prices are effective. A customer submits an offer to buy the product at an "offer price" that... |
| 6098049 |
Electronic price label system including groups of electronic price labels and method of managing the groups |
| Aug-1-2000 |
An electronic price label (EPL) system including groups of electronic price labels and method of managing the groups which facilitate group definition, assignment of EPLs to groups, assignment of items... |
| 6092069 |
Market research database containing separate product and naked product information |
| Jul-18-2000 |
A market research database includes industry code information containing industry codes (such as UPCs), naked product information containing information about naked products, package information containing... |
| 6092057 |
Unattended POS system for automatic control of bank system rejections |
| Jul-18-2000 |
An automatic process for use in point-of-sale credit card or debit card systems for taking corrective action based on information returned from the banking system and/or the point-of-sale system. The automatic... |
| 6078889 |
Method and system of implementing a carrier manager librarian |
| Jun-20-2000 |
A management librarian for shipping carriers is configured to access a registry containing carrier identifiers corresponding to the carriers and module identifier corresponding to carrier rate modules.... |
| 6076071 |
Automated synchronous product pricing and advertising system |
| Jun-13-2000 |
An automated product pricing system including a physical store system, a virtual store system, and a control system. The physical and virtual store systems are capable of transmitting sales data indicative... |
| 6076070 |
Apparatus and method for on-line price comparison of competitor's goods and/or services over a computer network |
| Jun-13-2000 |
A method and apparatus are provided for a computer-implemented on-line price comparison method for performing price comparison and price reduction of goods and/or services sold by a vendor over a computer... |
| 6073843 |
EPL price verification system and method |
| Jun-13-2000 |
An electronic price label (EPL) price verification system which ensures that a price for an item obtained from a price look-up (PLU) file by a bar code scanner is equal to another price displayed by an... |
| 6052667 |
Method and apparatus for selling an aging food product as a substitute for an ordered product |
| Apr-18-2000 |
A POS terminal receives an order for a food product. The POS terminal in turn selects a complementary product based on the food product. The selected complementary product has an age within a predetermined... |
| 6047263 |
Method of displaying information by an electronic price label |
| Apr-4-2000 |
A method of displaying information associated with a special promotion by an electronic price label (EPL) which saves bandwidth at a start time of the special promotion. The method includes the steps of... |
| 6044358 |
System and method of determining price differences between price look-up files |
| Mar-28-2000 |
A system and method of determining price differences between price files which minimizes the possibility that an incorrect price is displayed by an electronic price label (EPL). The system includes a computer... |
| 6041307 |
Technique for effectively managing resources in a network |
| Mar-21-2000 |
In an intranet, servers provide services for a price. A user is allotted a budget consisting of a limited amount of electronic credits to pay for the services. When the user requests a selected service... |
| 6026372 |
Computer system for maintaining current and predicting future food needs |
| Feb-15-2000 |
A computer system (10) is provided which includes an electronic cash registers (11) electronically coupled to a cooking station monitor (12) and input (13), and a manager's station monitor (15), input... |
| 6026373 |
Method of sending messages to an electronic price label |
| Feb-15-2000 |
A method of sending information to an electronic price label (EPL) for display which requires only one message to be sent to the EPL. Second information is recorded in response to an operator request to... |
