Appeal No. 1999-1625 Application No. 08/792,468 method of purchasing using the same. The apparatus includes a transportable accommodation section (3), a commodity code reading section (2), a prepaid card (87) inputting processing section (83a), a commodity price retrieval section (91b) and a data updating section (83b) which are permanently fixed to the transportable accommodation section (3). See Appellants' specification on page 27, line 10, page 53, line 15 through page 54, lines 14, page 96, lines 5-15 and page 107, lines 7-20 and associated figures 10, 11, 24 and 29. The independent claims 13, 27 and dependent claim 28 present in the application are reproduced as follows: 13. A purchased commodity accommodating and transporting apparatus having a self scanning function, comprising: a commodity code reading section for reading a commodity code applied to a commodity; a transportable accommodation section for accommodating therein and transporting a commodity whose commodity code has been read by said commodity code reading section; a prepaid card inputting processing section for receiving a prepaid card and reading remains information of the prepaid card; a commodity price retrieval section for retrieving the price of the commodity in accordance with the commodity code information read by said commodity reading section; and a data updating section for registering a result obtained by subtraction of the price of the commodity retrieved by said commodity price retrieval section from the remains information read by said prepaid card inputting processing section as remains 22Page: Previous 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 NextLast modified: November 3, 2007