Appeal No. 1997-3500 Page 3
Application No. 08/338,055
The obviousness rejection of claims 2 through 17 is
reversed.
Poland discloses an apparatus for communicating price
changes to electronic price display devices 24 via a serial
data link 21 and serial bus 23 (Figure 1).
In Gomersall, the Universal Product Code (UPC) is used as
the address code for an electronic display device which may be
mounted on a shelf. Each electronic display device is
connected to a store computer, and a prestored address code in
the electronic display device is compared with an address code
sent by the computer (column 2, lines 46 through 52).
Hunt discloses a battery-powered, stand-alone, shelf-
mounted module that displays information on a liquid crysral
display (Figure 1). Data in the module are updated by a
portable data terminal that attaches to the module. Two-way
data transfer occurs between the module and the portable data
terminal.
Spiegelhoff discloses a system and method for allocating
monetary resources among a plurality of wholesalers to obtain
the best unit price (Abstract).
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