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7620575 Locally generating price quotes using one or more pricing tools received from a seller  
A system includes one or more computers associated with a buyer for locally generating price quotes. The one or more computers receive a pricing tool from a seller, the pricing tool operable to...
7606733 Account portability for computing  
The present invention relates to a portable device containing software adapted to execute on and instruct a host computing device. When executing the software, the host computing device may...
7587372 Dynamic pricing of items based on category with which the item is associated  
A method of dynamically adjusting prices of items using a processor based upon the category to which the item is assigned, wherein the items are of the type that are deliverable over a network. A...
7587335 Food product scale and related in-store random weight item transaction system with RFID capabilities  
A random weight item transaction system include a scale with label RIFD tag functionality, service person RFID tag functionality and customer RFID tag functionality. A slicer in proximity to the...
7574414 Method for implementing a rules-based engine  
Embodiments of the invention provide an RBE that uses a logical abstraction for a set of application rules that allows the rules to be implemented, presented and modified efficiently. For one...
7562032 Ordering items of playable content or other works  
Self-service terminals for sampling items of playable content. The terminal includes input means for inputting selection information, and reproduction means for replaying parts of selected items....
7555466 Dynamic pricing of items based on category with which the item is associated  
A method comprises determining a first price of an item in a first group for sale utilizing a processor, offering the item in the first group for sale at the first price, selling one or more orders...
7551149 System and method for updating electronic label displays  
An electronic label, which is wirelessly connected to a product information updating system, said label comprising at least one display ( 3; 11,13,15 ) adapted to display product information....
7533052 Trading system  
In an automated exchange system functions for automatic hedging and automatic price improvements are provided.
7529687 In-store customer display device and method  
A system and method for displaying information to a customer during a point-of-sale transaction by showing the information about the customer's purchase and infomercial on a single display screen....
7503477 Method for offering location-based targeted discounts without requirement for location sensing  
In a method and system for providing location-based targeted information without requiring location sensing, items are scanned while the customer shops. The sequences in which items are scanned are...
7461009 System and method of sending messages to electronic shelf labels based upon priority  
An electronic shelf label system which sends messages to electronic shelf labels based upon priority. The system includes an electronic shelf label, and a computer for assigning a priority to an...
7433831 Automatic price display control by emulation of electronic cash register price lookup  
A system and method for distribution of product price and/or sales data in a retail establishment. Product price and/or sales data is stored locally, either in a central computer or master...
7413121 Multi-use wireless display tag infrastructure and methods  
A multiuse system for use with Wireless Display Tags (WDTs) includes, in one or more exemplary arrangements, techniques for automatically maintaining synchronicity between pricing data for a...
7411503 System and method for disabling data on radio frequency identification tags  
The disclosed embodiments of the present invention are used to permanently disable or destruct an RFID so that it is no longer possible to read some or all of the data encoded on the RFID tag. In...
7403909 Systems and methods for asynchronous processing of electronic shelf label communication responses  
An electronic price label (ESL) system for performing asynchronous ESL transactions. An event notification technique allows a communication base station (CBS) manager to directly notify an ESL...
7379898 System and method for generating market pricing information for non-fungible items  
A system for generating market pricing information for a non-fungible target item includes one or more databases containing historical pricing information for at least one reference item,...
7376290 Method and system for providing a photo album to a user of a digital imaging device  
A method and system for providing a user with an album including a plurality of pages is disclosed. The method and system include allowing a user to purchase at least a portion of the album...
7356571 System, method and processor readable medium for downloading information within a predetermined period of time to a device in a network responsive to price selection  
A method, system, and processor readable medium allows a user to download information to a device within a predetermined period of time at a predetermined price. In an embodiment of the present...
7346588 Cost estimation method and system, and computer readable medium for the method  
A part cost estimation system including a processing cost information storage device; a shape designating device configured to designate the shape of the part; a processing designating device...
7343420 Data contents distribution system  
A data contents distribution system in which a contents distribution server puts contents and trial contents of the contents in question on a Web site on a network and a client side device of a...
7343344 Electronic payment system using accounting function in a mobile communication network  
A method of readily realizing electronic payment service at low cost with a high level of convenience and security for a consumer is disclosed. A personal information input terminal notifies a...
7340412 Methods and apparatus for performing delta updates of an electronic shelf label  
An electronic price label (ESL) system providing a delta update of an ESL's registers. In one aspect, an ESL manager receives and indication that an update to one or more of the registers of the...
7334727 Store management system  
A store management system executes store operations, employing a communication apparatus In the store, connected with at least one store terminal by way of a first line Inside the store and...
7324071 Segmented character display  
A character display comprises fifty-nine segments arranged into rows and columns. Twenty eight of the fifty-nine segments define a periphery of the display, eleven additional segments define...
7320429 Self-scanning system and purchased-item registering apparatus, purchased-item registering method, and computer product  
A specific-item-information storing unit stores information on a specific item that can be contained in one container together with other item. A specific-item judging unit judges, when the...
7308421 System and method for grouping products in a catalog  
An apparatus and method for preparing a price quote for a product. The product is selected from among a plurality of products. A determination is made as to whether the product is a member of a...
7290009 System and method for allocating resources using spot market and derivative market techniques  
A network computer server system for controlling a plurality of network access lines to provide subscriber access to a computer network comprising an access line interface for partitioning the...
7287001 Electronic product information display system  
The invention discloses a printed label and a display shelf for a business establishment, including a display shelf having a length and at least one area on which at least one product is to be...
7257547 Service managing system  
A service managing system comprises: order terminals for enabling customers to view contents of service items and to order desired items, and being portable and driven by a battery; order-receiving...
7243308 System and method for dynamically adjusting data values and enforcing valid combinations of the data in response to remote user input  
The present invention is embodied in a system and method for dynamically adjusting data values and preventing conflicts in response to remote user input. Namely, the system and method provides a...
7233928 Rule-based system for determining price adjustments in a product catalog  
A method for computing a price quote for a product using a contract. The method includes identifying the set of price rules for a plurality of products associated with the contract. Each price rule...
7233912 Method and apparatus for vending a combination of products  
A method and apparatus for delivering a plurality of products from a vending machine is disclosed. The method generally allows an offer for a package to be output, in which the package defines a...
7206756 System and method for facilitating commercial transactions over a data network  
A method, a computer system and a computer program product to facilitate comparison-price shopping over a data network, such as the Internet, is provided that includes a price availability feature...
7197481 Flexible production and material resource planning system using sales information directly acquired from POS terminals  
This invention relates to a production system for retail goods which is intended for timely collection of accurate sales information from retail outlets and flexible production of goods in...
7194432 Billing process and system in a telecommunication network  
A billing method and billing system to determine usage fees which are charged to the user of a digital telecommunications network, whereby a usage fee charged for a connection is determined prior...
7178722 Virtual shopping environment  
A shopping environment process includes determining when a shopper is in proximity to an item by detecting a wireless transmission from a shopper device associated with the shopper. A purchase...
7167167 Write head for a display tag having a liquid crystal display  
Apparatus for changing the display state of a bistable liquid crystal display on a display tag having a plurality of electrical contact pads connected to a corresponding plurality of electrodes in...
7152040 Electronic shelf label  
An electronic shelf label includes a transceiver configured to communicate with a plurality of wireless data tags associated with a plurality of retail products. The transceiver is further...
7143057 Method of producing, selling, and distributing articles of manufacture  
There is disclosed a method of selling articles of manufacture. The method comprises an electronic communication system to identify one or more articles of manufacture, from at least one...
7099833 Dynamic pricing system and method for electronic stores  
A system and method for conducting electronic commerce, includes electronically visiting, by a customer interested in shopping for an item, a comparison shopping site (“CompShop”), and...
7085734 Price decision support  
A user interface displays markdown price recommendations for a given set of retail merchandise aimed at attaining optimal gross margin while clearing merchandise from a retailer by a given date and...
7080028 Methods and apparatus for promotional electronic signs  
Techniques for displaying promotional information by providing an electronic sign (ES) which displays promotional information, display slogans, bundled pricing, bulk pricing, and other types of...
7072850 Method and apparatus for processing a supplementary product sale at a point-of-sale terminal  
Upsells are made accessible to customers so customers may select upsells as they select items in their purchase. Each upsell has an associated rounding code. For example, the rounding code may be...
7065500 Automatic advertiser notification for a system for providing place and price protection in a search result list generated by a computer network search engine  
A notification method in a computer database system includes receiving a notification instruction from an owner associated with a search listing stored in the computer database system, monitoring...
7062447 Imputed variable generator  
Disclosed are methods, media and systems for generating imputing econometric variables from raw econometric data. A method for generating cleansed initial dataset from corrected raw econometric...
7040536 Electronic shelf label systems and methods  
An electronic shelf label including an LCD display, a housing including a protective at least partially transparent cover layer disposed over the LCD display and in spaced relationship thereto, and...
7039603 Settlement systems and methods wherein a buyer takes possession at a retailer of a product purchased using a communication network  
Settlement systems and methods are provided wherein a buyer takes possession of a product at a retailer. In one embodiment, a purchasing system arranges through a communication network for a buyer...
7016862 Method for enhancing security and providing assistance in the operation of a self-service checkout terminal  
A method of providing security during operation of a self-service checkout terminal includes the step of creating a transaction table which includes a plurality of records corresponding...
7005962 Price label communication system  
Price label system comprising a price label system server connected to transceivers adapted to communicate price label information to price labels using a communication protocol. A predetermined...
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