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6701192 |
Wiring hub for a retail terminal
A wiring hub for a retail terminal system provides an interface between a main terminal of the retail terminal system and a plurality of peripherals associated with the retail terminal system, such...
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6696920 |
Method of changing an electronic price label display sequence
A method of changing a display sequence of an electronic price label which uses two commands to add and remove information from a display sequence. The method includes the steps of formulating a...
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6697678 |
Printing apparatus with real-time status reporting to a host device
A printing apparatus comprises a real-time command detector connected to the data receiver without the memory therebetween to detect control commands. Status data is transmitted to a host device in...
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6697785 |
System, method and apparatus for coupon processing and booklet
A coupon manager is provided including a front end, back end and a central processor for facilitating the processing and settlement of coupons. The coupons are received from customers at the front...
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6687680 |
Electronic cash register system
Weight data of articles for sale is stored and a total weight is calculated every order. Measured weight of the prepared articles in a package is compared with the calculated total weight. If the...
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6675350 |
System for collecting and displaying summary information from disparate sources
A system is described for collecting and displaying summary information from disparate sources. The system provides for user customization of data acquisition parameters for locating articles to be...
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6669832 |
Electronic transaction system
A request for a commodity that each office in an organization needs is sent from a terminal in the office to a general affairs service center in the organization. The request is then sent to a VAN...
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6644547 |
Customer workstation intelligently connectable to a legacy retail system and providing supplemental functionality thereto
A retail terminal/customer service workstation integrates various retail devices and consolidates all of the associated functions of the retail devices and non-associated functions into a single,...
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6633851 |
Systems and methods for generating custom reports based on point-of-sale data
A method of generating custom reports based on point-of-sale data transferred between multiple remote computing devices and a central computing device includes generating point-of-sale data at...
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6625580 |
Wireless order and delivery system
A store system has a goods display area for displaying samples of goods, and a goods storage for stocking the goods to be handed, whereby a waiting time till the goods are received is reduced. A...
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6595417 |
Electronic shopping system
A system and method for an information system for use by customers in a retail shopping environment are provided. The system includes a host computer and a portable terminal for use by a customer....
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6574608 |
Web-based system for connecting buyers and sellers
A Web-based buyer-driven system of commerce efficiently and inexpensively connects buyers and sellers. In general, the system includes a Web site globally accessible by potential buyers and...
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6571218 |
Remote approval system and methods for use in network of retail checkout terminals
In a system for processing store interventions in a network of self-checkout terminals, self-checkout terminals monitor the self-checkout activities performed to determine whether an issue has...
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6557032 |
Data processing system using active tokens and method for controlling such a system
A distributed data processing system such as a retail store customer transaction network using smart cards provides an object oriented processing environment at each transaction terminal to enable...
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6553348 |
Sales management apparatus
In a sales management apparatus, control programs necessary for operating in different modes are stored in respective mode keys and any desirable control program is loaded by using a corresponding...
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6553349 |
System and method of applying price changes in an electronic price label system
A system and method of applying price changes which minimizes price look-up file access attempts by using a separate file for daily price change information, including a new price, a date, a start...
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6546441 |
Point-of-sale system
A point-of-sale system is disclosed which is freely configurable with a plurality of peripheral input devices. The system includes a general purpose computer having a communications port for...
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6546373 |
System and method for recovering refundable taxes
A system for recovering refundable taxes such as value-added taxes (VAT) uses a transaction card, such as a credit or debit or electronic cash card, to record purchases made by a traveler that are...
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6535119 |
System and method of managing failure of an electronic shelf label to respond to a message
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...
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6532435 |
REMOTE MONITORING SYSTEM, AN AUTOMATIC SETTING APPARATUS FOR SETTING A NEAR-END VALUE FOR MANAGING A CONSUMPTION COMPONENT UTILIZED IN THE REMOTE MONITORING SYSTEM, AND A RECORDING MEDIUM HAVING AN AUTOMATIC SETTING PROGRAM RECORDED THEREON AND READABLE BY A COMPUTER
A remote monitoring system includes an object apparatus and a monitoring apparatus monitoring a current state of the object apparatus over a communications network. The object apparatus includes a...
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6513016 |
Automated synchronous product pricing and advertising system
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...
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6505170 |
Distributed device management system
A distributed device management system. The system includes a set of distributed devices, such as point-of-sale devices. The devices are managed by a remote host.
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6505178 |
Automatic teller machine with secure variable storage for internet applications
A memory controller component ( 10, 30, 40 ) for an Internet application such as a bank, airline or supermarket web site is disclosed. The component is instantiated from a web page in the...
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6490567 |
System and method for distributed content electronic commerce
Distributed electronic commerce is conducted over a network by substantially separating transaction functionality from merchant content. Electronic commerce transaction functionality is provided by...
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6487540 |
Methods and systems for electronic receipt transmission and management
Embodiments of the present invention relate to systems, methods and apparatus for the generation, transmission, storage and manipulation of electronic receipts which communicate itemized purchase...
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6484146 |
System for offering targeted discounts to customers and collecting purchasing behavior data
A system for presenting customized special offers to customers, the special offers including targeted offers to a customer selected from a plurality of customers, and for collecting purchasing...
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6467684 |
Pre-paid card system for purchasing products or services
A pre-paid card system is provided for paying for purchases over an electronic or computer network, such as the Internet. The system includes a plurality of cards each having a unique identity...
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6469617 |
Method of restoring information for display by an electronic price label
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....
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6442549 |
Method, product, and apparatus for processing reusable information
In a communication network having at least one communication link connecting a provider and a client, wherein the provider is in communication with a registrar storing one or more identifiers such...
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6427138 |
Methods and apparatus for providing an electronic price label countdown timer
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...
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6414958 |
Four-port secure ethernet VLAN switch supporting SNMP and RMON
A multi-port switch is provided having an Ethernet switching section for connecting and switching among network devices and includes at least three ports, a network management module operating...
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6411937 |
Terminal for communication in an urban environment
A communications terminal for communicating in an urban environment. The communications terminal includes a parking meter with a printer and a payment device. The terminal also is provided with a...
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6408279 |
Method and apparatus for operating a self-service checkout terminal and a remote supervisor terminal of a retail system
A method of operating a retail system which has (i) a self-service checkout terminal, and (ii) a remote supervisor terminal includes the step of generating an intervention-needed control signal...
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6401074 |
Retail transaction promotion system
An augmented point of sale system that displays, and that may broadcast, during a retail transaction, promotional information to a customer selected on the basis of the context of the transaction....
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6401076 |
Wide area inventory control system
An inventory control system in which local units having inventories continually and serially transmit data only in a local area to users having portable receivers which store and display when...
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6363354 |
Maintenance system, and recording medium recording thereon a maintenance program, for a plurality of price look-up tables
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...
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6356794 |
Item dispensing system network
An item dispensing system having an item dispenser, a controller and a fault store for storing fault thresholds and faults. A true state of a fault is stored in the fault store in response to an...
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6351688 |
Item dispensing system
An item dispensing system has a plurality of item dispensers at different retail locations. The item dispensers have processors for collecting data relating to the items dispensed. A host computer...
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6327570 |
Personal business service system and method
A system and method of computerizing companies with customized individual addressable electronic direct marketing, self-service automation, and customer care support. The system contains a private...
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6311165 |
Transaction processing systems
A banking, retail or other transaction network can comprise a number of terminals, for example an ATM, where each terminal comprises a plurality of peripheral devices such as a user interface, card...
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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...
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6282516 |
Process, system and computer readable medium for in-store printing of discount coupons and/or other purchasing incentives in various departments within a retail store
A system, process and computer readable medium for distributing purchasing incentives throughout departments of a retail store including an incentive processor including a network controller and a...
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6269342 |
Programmable shelf tag system
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...
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6208976 |
Order management system with automatic menu updating
An order management system enables a customer to use a terminal device to order food, but can respond rapidly to changes and additions to the menu. When this system starts up, it transmits an...
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6205363 |
Printer and control method for obtaining printer status
A printing apparatus comprises a real-time command interpreter that functions even when the printing apparatus is off-line, and interprets control commands simultaneously with receiving data. The...
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6199049 |
Verifiable electronic journal for a point of sale device and methods for using the same
A point of sale device having a verifiable electronic journal system which maintains an electronic journal file in lieu of using a journal print station. Transaction information is first stored in...
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6195645 |
Data communication system
In a system having a plurality of apparatuses connected via a communication line, one apparatus serving as a master unit performs processing on data stored in the other apparatus or apparatuses....
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6105864 |
Terminal device and terminal system
A terminal device and a terminal system which are adapted for electronic money, excellent in operability and easy in the management of the electronic money. The terminal device used in combination...
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6108638 |
Data processing system and data processing method using same
A data processing system and a data processing method using data processing system which comprises a plurality of input units for registering selected products, and a processing unit connected to...
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6098049 |
Electronic price label system including groups of electronic price labels and method of managing the groups
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...
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