Class / Patent application number | Description | Number of patent applications / Date published |
705020000 | Price look-up processing (e.g., updating) | 38 |
20080222001 | Purchasing transaction support system - A portable communication terminal requests merchandise information from a store management apparatus, by using store identity information about a store where a purchasing transaction is made, and merchandise information about merchandise to be purchased. The store management apparatus has a merchandise information storage configured to store merchandise information including a price of merchandise to be sold in each store. The store management apparatus receives a merchandise information request from a portable communication terminal, retrieves a merchandise information storage, detects merchandise information matching a retrieval condition, and sends the merchandise information to the request source, i.e., the portable communication terminal. The portable communication terminal displays merchandise information sent from the store management apparatus in a display. | 09-11-2008 |
20080294526 | System and Method for Interrelating Alternative Media-Type Commerce Transactions - A system and method for interrelating alternative media-type commerce transactions allow a consumer to select and purchase an A/V product having a particular media-type and track the purchase and the media-type. The system and method include different pricing schemes for each A/V product and each media-type. Each A/V product is associated with a pricing scheme that interrelates pricing for purchases by the same consumer of the same A/V product for multiple media-types. In at least one embodiment, the system allows the consumer to make a second purchase of the A/V product and select an alternative media-type. In at least one embodiment, the first and second products have the same content form and a non-discounted price of the second selected product is higher than a non-discounted price of a first selected product. | 11-27-2008 |
20080319865 | 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 electronic cash register (ECR) or remotely at a master computer. The product price data is stored in the form of a price look-up (PLU) table. The price data can be pushed from the master ECR, local or master computers to and ECR emulation hub to an ECR emulation hub. Similarly, the ECR emulation hub can request product price data from the master ECR, local or master computers. Once the product price data arrives at the ECR emulation hub, it can be processed and sent to a display, which will be located near the appropriate product. The ECR emulation hub can also record and/or transmit prices actually charged for products over time to allow for automatic auditing of promotional pricing offers such as those made by manufacturers of the product. The ECR emulation hub acts like an ECR, thereby requiring no special software or hardware modifications to existing pricing display systems that already support ECRs. | 12-25-2008 |
20090089173 | Retail price output system - The present invention intends to provide a system for determining prices so that the price of a poor-selling product is decreased, and the price of a well-selling product is increased, so as to ensure profit and achieve more effective inventory management. The retail price output system of the present invention comprises setting means in which a reference price of a product is set, recognition means for recognizing an order quantity from a customer for a product, pricing means for increasing or decreasing the list price of the product with respect to the reference price according to the order quantity for the product and an inventory quantity of the product, and price outputting means for outputting data for list price determined by the pricing means to a customer computer, wherein the list price of the product may be increased with respect to the reference price. | 04-02-2009 |
20090094127 | Storage-Cabinet and Method for Selling Frozen and/or Refrigerated Goods From Such a Locked Storage-Cabinet - The invention is related to a storage cabinet ( | 04-09-2009 |
20090192909 | DATACODE READING APPARATUS - When decoding a datacode based on moving image data output from an image sensing device, moving image data output from the image sensing device is input. An image display output unit processes the moving image data and displays it on the display screen of a display as a real-time moving image. | 07-30-2009 |
20100161434 | RETAIL CHECKOUT SYSTEM AND METHOD - A near field communication (NFC) based checkout system comprises an NFC enabled mobile telephone that reads product data from an NFC tag associated with a product. The mobile telephone updates a shopping list when the consumer scans an item. The consumer uploads the shopping list at a payment terminal at the checkout via an NFC link. The payment terminal connects with a price look up (PLU) database and downloads the price data for the items in the shopping list to provide a total price. The payment terminal requests authorisation of the total price from the consumer's financial authorisation. | 06-24-2010 |
20100185522 | Item Identifier for a Physical Item, Catalogs, and Catalog Query - This invention is related to electronic information transfer between trading partners and more particularly to the use of a physical item identifier affixed to a physical item for tracking the item using physical identification systems. The invention further discloses the catalogs, catalog queries and processes to provide the information to initialize the item in the physical identification systems. | 07-22-2010 |
20100185523 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS WHEREIN A LOTTERY NUMBER COMBINATION IS ASSOCIATED WITH A LIMITED NUMBER OF OCCURRENCES - Systems and methods are provided to facilitate lottery ticket transactions. A request to purchase a lottery ticket is received, the lottery ticket being associated with a lottery number combination, such as a limited number of lottery tickets or a limited number of players. An indication that the lottery number combination is to be associated with a limited number of occurrences is also received. For example, an indication that the lottery number combination is to be associated with only a single lottery ticket may be received. A price associated with the lottery ticket is determined based on the received indication. According to one embodiment, the price is increased by a predetermined amount based on the received indication. | 07-22-2010 |
20100250379 | INTERACTIVE INTERCHANGE RATE DECISIONING - Apparatus and methods for providing transaction fee information to a customer. The apparatus and methods may provide to a customer at a merchant point of sale terminal information regarding a transaction fee. The transaction may be based on the customer's credit card or other purchasing instrument. The transaction fee may be imposed by an issuer of the credit card. The merchant may be required to pay the fee. The point of sale terminal may be configured to provide an opportunity for the customer to decide, based on the transaction fee, whether to continue the transaction or obtain information about fees associated with other credit cards. | 09-30-2010 |
20110258059 | Processing Separate Items Via A Single Retailer Action - A method, system, and medium are provided for processing multiple items for retail sale via a single retailer action. Upon scanning a machine-readable marking that is associated with multiple items provided by various vendors, a marking identifier associated with the machine-readable marking is recognized. The marking identifier corresponds with each price of the multiple items. Each price of the multiple items is presented to a consumer for payment that can be disbursed to the appropriate vendors. | 10-20-2011 |
20110258060 | 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 electronic cash register (ECR) or remotely at a master computer. The product price data is stored in the form of a price look-up (PLU) table. The price data can be pushed from the master ECR, local or master computers to and ECR emulation hub to an ECR emulation hub. Similarly, the ECR emulation hub can request product price data from the master ECR, local or master computers. Once the product price data arrives at the ECR emulation hub, it can be processed and sent to a display, which will be located near the appropriate product. The ECR emulation hub can also record and/or transmit prices actually charged for products over time to allow for automatic auditing of promotional pricing offers such as those made by manufacturers of the product. The ECR emulation hub acts like an ECR, thereby requiring no special software or hardware modifications to existing pricing display systems that already support ECRs. | 10-20-2011 |
20110288945 | ELECTRONIC PRICE SYSTEM AND A METHOD AND A COMPUTER PROGRAM FOR THE ELECTRONIC PRICE SYSTEM - An electronic price system comprising at least a cash register ( | 11-24-2011 |
20120179560 | SYSTEM FOR A SELF-SERVICE PRODUCT DETECTION STATION AND METHOD FOR SAID SYSTEM - The invention relates to a system for detecting products at a self-service product detection station wherein an optical control detection device is provided for detected a number of products smaller than the total number of products presented for purchase, wherein products detected by the control detection device are each assigned identification data, and a verification device is presented by means of which the identification data of the products detected by means of the control detection device are checked for consistency with the identification data of the products detected with a reading device so that, depending on the comparison result, an acknowledgement signal continuing the purchasing procedure or a correction signal interrupting the purchasing procedure is generated. | 07-12-2012 |
20120284132 | DISPLAY DEVICE ATTACHABLE TO SHOPPING CARTS, SHOPPING CART, AND DIGITAL SIGNAGE DISPLAY - A display device attachable to a shopping cart, and including a communication module configured to receive information on a specific product from a digital device displaying at least one or more products; a code reader configured to read code information attached to a random product selected from the at least one or more products; a display module; and a controller configured to compare the code information of a product recognized by the code reader with the received information on the specific product, and to control the display module to either display a guide message that the compared code information and the received information are identical or a guide message indicating the compared code information and the received information are not identical. | 11-08-2012 |
20120323713 | SMALL STORE SYSTEM - System and methods of use are discloses that default routing of an ID read by an ID reader as part of a purchase transaction in a retail store, to a first computer system (MCS) instead of the POS computer system for the retail store, the first computer system processes the ID, and the POS computer system receives the results of the processing in the form of a IDs recognizable by the POS computer system and for which the POS computer system has associated costs. | 12-20-2012 |
20120330766 | FINANCIAL TRANSACTION APPROVAL SYSTEM AND METHOD - A method of processing a retail transaction includes processing a plurality of items for purchase using a point-of-sale terminal, which is part of a transaction approval system at a point of sale in a retail store. Processing the plurality of items includes using the point-of-sale terminal to determine associated price information for each item. Processing the plurality of items begins when information regarding an identifier of a first one of the plurality of items is entered into the point-of-sale terminal and ends when the information regarding the identifiers associated with all of the plurality of items has been entered into the point-of-sale terminal. The method further includes, before processing the plurality of items ends, electronically receiving an identification of a financial account to pay for the plurality of items, and after electronically receiving the identification of the financial account, determining a total cost of the plurality of items. | 12-27-2012 |
20130018741 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR MERCHANDISE CHECKOUT - Systems and methods for recognizing and identifying items located on the lower shelf of a shopping cart in a checkout lane of a retail store environment for reducing or preventing loss or fraud and increasing the efficiency of a checkout process efficiency. The system includes one or more visual sensors that can take images of items and a computer system that receives the images and automatically identifies the items. The system can be trained to recognize the items using images taken of the items. The system relies on matching visual features from training images to match against features extracted from images taken at the checkout lane. Using the scale-invariant feature transformation (SIFT) method, for example, the system can compare extracted visual features of the images to the features stored in a database to find one or more matches, where the found one or more matches are used to identify the items. | 01-17-2013 |
20130144736 | Caching Item Information in a Cloud-Based Point of Sale System - Mechanisms are provided, in a data processing system, for retrieving and utilizing item information to perform a transaction. The mechanisms receive an identification of an item present in a detection field of the item identification system. A determination is made as to whether valid item information for the item is present in a cache of the data processing system in response to detecting the item as being present in the detection field of the item identification system. If valid item information is present in the cache, the valid item information is retrieved from the cache. If valid item information is not present in the cache, the valid item information is retrieved from a remotely located cloud computing system. The transaction is performed based on the valid item information. | 06-06-2013 |
20130204725 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PRICING, LEASING, AND TRANSFERRING OWNERSHIP OF TIRES - Alternative techniques of pricing, leasing or transferring ownership of a new tire can provide a customer with increased options in procuring a new tire and can facilitate assembling customized new tires from select components. In embodiments, the new tire can be assembled from a new tire casing and a new tire tread. The sale or lease price of the new tire can be based in part on one or more factors including the price of the selected casing and price of the selected tread; lease of the casing or the tread; acceptance of second casing or tread; selection of guarantee options regarding fuel savings, extended life, or the like; and the cost-per-mile during use of the new tire. In embodiments, the techniques can be carried out with the assistance of a computer system configured to operate a tire customization and price calculating program. | 08-08-2013 |
20130254050 | MOBILE DEVICE DISCOVERY AND INFORMATION DISTRIBUTION SYSTEM FOR AN INDICIA READER SYSTEM AT RETAIL ESTABLISHMENT - A retail store communications network, a point of transaction (POT) terminal and methods of using the same according to embodiments of the application can include a hand held and/or stationary optical reader for reading a bar code symbol of an item and generating a decoded out bar code data message. The network is configured so that the POT terminal can use linked or identified mobile devices by way of wireless communication, to provide a sequenced order of identified customers at the POT terminal among a plurality of discoverable wireless devices. | 09-26-2013 |
20130268379 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR FRAUD AND RECONCILIATION CONTROL AT POINT OF SALE - Methods and apparatuses streamline transactions involving both a service provider application and a point of sale to control fraud and improve the reconciliation process. Transactions generated at a service provider application are communicated to the point of sale and are finalized at the point of sale to avoid dual entry, minimizing errors. Alerts are generated when outstanding service provider generated transactions are not finalized within a defined period of time. | 10-10-2013 |
20130297433 | STORE SYSTEM, READING APPARATUS, AND SALES REGISTRATION APPARATUS - A store system includes a reading unit that includes an image acquiring unit and an image output unit, and a sales registration apparatus that includes a similar image detection unit and a sales registration unit. The image acquiring unit acquires an image that is captured by an image capturing unit. The image output unit outputs the acquired image. The similar image detection unit detects an image of a product that is similar to at least a portion of the output image by referencing product management information in which information relating to sales registration of a product and an image of the product are associated for each product. The sales registration unit registers sales of a product based on information relating to the sales registration associated with the image of the detected product. | 11-07-2013 |
20140006193 | RETAIL EQUIPMENT | 01-02-2014 |
20140214569 | TECHNIQUES FOR TRANSACTION QUANTITY CONTROL - Techniques for transaction quantity control are provided. A transaction having multiple purchases for a same item type and having an adjustment in price is identified. An analysis on an adjustment condition results in dynamic splitting a line entry for the item into multiple sets, each set reflect a different aspect of the adjustment condition and a quantity identifier; and the sets together completely representing the adjustment condition. | 07-31-2014 |
20140244413 | ELECTRONIC QUANTITY PURCHASING SYSTEM - Disclosed is an electronic quantity purchasing system which is a host computer that a user may access to purchase quantities of goods or services at a locked-in price for later redemption. The preferred communication means employed is via secure, high-speed Internet access. Data storage is electronic. Users employ the system to make an instant purchase of a small or large quantity of a commodity, such as gasoline at the current purchase price. Users can redeem all or part of their balance for real product at a physical location in the future when desired. The redemption will draw down the user's account balance at the locked-in purchase price, so the user is able to circumvent the market price in effect at the time of redemption. | 08-28-2014 |
20140310114 | PROCESSING SEPARATE ITEMS VIA A SINGLE RETAILER ACTION - A method, system, and medium are provided for processing multiple items for retail sale via a single retailer action. Upon scanning a machine-readable marking that is associated with multiple items provided by various vendors, a marking identifier associated with the machine-readable marking is recognized. The marking identifier corresponds with each price of the multiple items. Each price of the multiple items is presented to a consumer for payment that can be disbursed to the appropriate vendors. | 10-16-2014 |
20140351071 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PAYMENT - A system and method for payment is provided. According to the method for payment, a mobile terminal carried by a customer reads goods for purchase and calculates an amount due for the read goods. Accordingly, customers can save a waiting time for payment and merchants can reduce operating costs. | 11-27-2014 |
20150025990 | COMMODITY SALES DATA PROCESSING APPARATUS, INFORMATION TERMINAL AND CONTROL METHOD - In accordance with one embodiment, a commodity sales data processing apparatus comprises a stationary type docking station, and a portable information terminal which can be attached to and detached from the docking station freely. The information terminal reads the data attached to a commodity, registers the read data, displays the registration content, and executes, if the information terminal is attached to the docking station, a checkout processing of calculating a checkout amount based on the registration content. | 01-22-2015 |
20150120475 | EXECUTING AN IN-STORE TRANSACTION - A computer-implemented process is described and includes employing a hand-held communications device to generate a list reflecting contents of a shopping cart. This includes scanning a QR code provided at a point of sale and transmitting the list reflecting contents of the shopping cart to a server. The server communicates the contents of the shopping cart to the point of sale. A bill of sale corresponding to the list reflecting the contents of the shopping cart is generated at the point of sale. A payment is tendered to complete the sale at the point of sale. | 04-30-2015 |
20150356835 | POINT-OF-SALE TERMINAL THAT SETS A SPECIAL DISPLAY FLAG IN ELECTRONIC RECEIPT DATA - A point-of-sale terminal includes a customer code detecting unit, a control unit, and a communication unit. The control unit is configured to generate electronic receipt data that includes the customer code of a customer who is purchasing one or more products and data describing the products that are being purchased in a transaction, detect a condition for displaying an alert on a mobile computing device correlated to the customer code, and upon detecting the condition, set a flag in the electronic receipt data to indicate that the condition is met. The communication unit is configured to transmit the electronic receipt data that includes the flag to an external apparatus for subsequent transmission to the mobile computing device for display by the mobile computing device. | 12-10-2015 |
20150363758 | STORE SHELF IMAGING SYSTEM - A store profile generation system includes a mobile base and an image capture assembly mounted on the base. The assembly includes at least one image capture device for acquiring images of product display units in a product facility, product labels being associated with the product display units which include product-related data. A control unit acquires the images captured by the at least one image capture device at a sequence of locations of the mobile base in the product facility. The control unit extracts the product-related data from the acquired images and constructs a store profile indicating locations of the product labels throughout the product facility, based on the extracted product-related data. The store profile can be used for generating new product labels for a sale in an appropriate order for a person to match to the appropriate locations in a single pass through the store. | 12-17-2015 |
20160012404 | COMPUTER SYSTEM FOR PROCESSING PRODUCT DATA | 01-14-2016 |
20160019514 | System and Method for Self-Checkout Using Product Images - A network of cameras is disposed throughout a store, such as a grocery store, for example. The cameras are positioned so as to monitor the products available in the store, as well as the entrances and exits to and from the store. Customers are identified as they enter the store, and their movements throughout the store are tracked. The cameras capture images of the products selected by the customer and then send those images to a computer server. The server identifies each product selected by the customer, maintains a total price for all products selected by the customer, and automatically debits the customer's account for the total price upon detecting the customer leaving the store. | 01-21-2016 |
20160019515 | MESH NETWORK APPLIED TO FIXED ESTABLISHMENT WITH MOVABLE ITEMS THEREIN - Mesh node modules are associated with movable and fixed items in a building such as a grocery store or factory floor to maintain a database of the locations of those items as they are processed through the establishment. The items form a mesh network and relay location information through access points, when in range, to control/monitoring computers. | 01-21-2016 |
20160071180 | GATEWAY, ELECTRONIC INFORMATION LABEL, AND METHOD FOR REGISTERING ELECTRONIC INFORMATION LABEL - Disclosed is an electronic information label that electronically shows information of products displayed in the store, and a gateway that manages electronic labels by forming a group thereof. In the present disclosure, an electronic label accesses a gateway having a small data amount to be registered therewith. The gateway includes a first communicator, a second communicator, an electronic label registerer, and a product information gateway. The electronic label registerer may register an electronic label based on whether a sum of data amounts of registered electronic labels is greater than a reference value. The product information gateway may relay product information to an electronic label via a server. | 03-10-2016 |
20160162859 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR UPDATING DICTIONARY DATA BY THE SAME - An information processing apparatus comprises a first dictionary storage module configured to store first dictionary data in which a first feature amount calculated according to commodity information or image of a commodity is set; an image storage module configured to store an image serving as basis of calculation of the first feature amount additionally set in the first dictionary data; a second dictionary storage module configured to store a second dictionary data of successor of the first dictionary data; an additional information setting module configured to extract commodity information to which additional setting or change setting is executed from the first dictionary data to set the extracted commodity information in the second dictionary data; and a feature amount re-calculation module configured to re-calculate a second feature amount according to the image stored in the image storage module to set the calculated second feature amount in the second dictionary data. | 06-09-2016 |
20190147425 | ELECTRONIC PRICE LABEL SYSTEM | 05-16-2019 |