Appeal No. 2002-0124
Application No. 09/192,842
interest in a coupon for that product but did not purchase that
product. In another embodiment, the system generates a “coupons-
to-expire” report indicative of coupons which are about to expire
relatively soon.
Representative independent claim 4 is reproduced as follows:
4. An electronic coupon system comprising:
a coupon card;
an in-store kiosk including
a user interface including coupon selection
instrumentation operative to prompt entry of coupon
selection data at said user interface and to record said
coupon selection data, and
a coupon card interface including coupon card
writing instrumentation operative to write coupon data
to said coupon card according to said coupon selection
data and coupon card reading instrumentation operative
to read coupon data written to said coupon card;
a point-of-sale terminal including
a transaction data interface operative to permit
entry of transaction data representative of a product
sale and a product sale price, and
a point-of-sale coupon card interface including
coupon card reading instrumentation operative to read
coupon data written to said coupon card and coupon card
writing instrumentation operative to remove coupon data
from said coupon card according to said transaction
data;
a host computer in communication with said in-store kiosk
and said point-of-sale terminal;
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