Appeal No. 2001-2286
Application 09/022,193
to the depressed department shift keys 24. Therefore, sales
information associated with a special customer or a special
purchaser can collectively be stored together in a specific area.
See page 26 of Appellant’s specification.
Claim 1 is the only independent claim present in the
application and is reproduced as follows:
1. An electronic cash register comprising:
registration means for registering sales information of a
plurality of items of merchandise;
sales information storage means for storing the sales
information; and
control means for causing execution of an ordinary
registration mode in which the sales information registered by
the registration means is supplied to the sales information
storage means;
the electronic cash register further comprising:
special registration process specifying means for specifying
that special sales information of special items be subjected to a
special registration process;
wherein the sales information storage means includes a first
portion for storing sales information associated with each item,
and a second portion for storing sales information associated
with each of a plurality of purchasers, the second portion
including a first sub-portion for storing sales information
associated with respective ordinary purchasers and a second sub-
portion for storing sales information associated with respective
special purchasers,
wherein, when the special registration is specified by the
special registration process specifying means, the control means
causes execution of a special registration mode in which the
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