Appeal No. 2001-2601
Application No. 09/167,897
electronic price labels is typically maintained in an electronic
price label data file. The price information displayed by the
electronic price labels is obtained from a price look-up data
file and stored within an electronic price label price change
record. See page 1 of Appellant's specification.
In order to obtain a competitive advantage, retailers must
effectively market their products. A typical marketing strategy
is to define groups of merchandise items to which the retailer
can tailor its promotion and pricing policies. Therefore, it
would be desirable to provide a system and method of sending
messages to a group of electronic price labels which
automatically manages addressing of messages to electronic price
labels as promotion and pricing policies for the group change.
See page 2 of Appellant's specification.
Appellant's invention includes a group of electronic price
labels which is less than the total number of electronic price
labels within a store, and a computer which records a unique
group identifier for a group of products associated with the
electronic price labels, determines unique electronic price label
identifiers for the group of electronic price labels from a table
linking the unique group identifier to the unique electronic
price label identifiers, and sends messages addressed to the
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