Appeal No. 2001-2601
Application No. 09/167,897
an electronic price label identifier from the record. See page 8
of Appellant's specification. In step 72, electronic price label
group action software 36 formulates a message addressed to each
electronic price label identifier obtained from electronic price
label group definition file 38. In step 74, electronic price
label group action software 36 passes the message to electronic
price label control software 30 for scheduling and transmission.
See page 9 of Appellant's specification.
Independent claim 1 is representative of Appellant's claimed
invention. We have reproduced claim 1 as follows:
1. A method of sending messages to a group of electronic price
labels (EPLs) less than a total number of EPLs within a
transaction establishment comprising the steps of:
(a) determining a unique group identifier for the
group;
(b) determining unique EPL identifiers for each EPL in
the group of EPLs from a table linking the unique group
identifier to the unique EPL identifiers; and
(c) sending messages addressed to the unique EPL
identifiers which contain identical information.
References
The references relied on by the Examiner are as follows:
Failing, Jr. et al. 5,448,226 Sep. 5, 1995
(Failing)
Briechle 5,704,049 Dec. 30, 1997
Kayser et al. 5,736,967 Apr. 7, 1998
(Kayser)
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