Appeal No. 2002-1469 Page 3
Application No. 09/317,110
coupling a point-of-sale (POS) controller, at least one cash register,
and said incentive processor via a POS bus;
receiving at a respective cash register of said at least one cash
register data defining an item identifier for an item that is subject to a
raincheck;
transmitting from one of said POS controller and said respective
cash register said data defining said item identifier for said item that is
subject to said raincheck over said POS bus to said incentive processor;
generating at said incentive processor raincheck information
including at least one purchasing incentive in response to receipt of said
data defining said item identifier for said item subject to said raincheck,
said plurality purchasing incentives, and said plurality of item identifiers;
transmitting from said incentive processor said raincheck
information to a respective incentive printer of said at least one incentive
printer over said incentive processor bus; and
printing at said respective incentive printer a raincheck including
said at least one purchasing incentive in response to receipt of said
raincheck information received from said incentive processor.
Claims 1-32 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 103(a) as obvious over U.S.
Patent No. 5,612,868 ("Off") and U.S. Patent No. 5,905,246 ("Fajkowski").
OPINION
Our opinion addresses the rejections of the following groups of claims:
• claims 1, 9, 17, and 25
• claims 2-4, 7, 8, 10-12, 15, 16, 19-20, 23, 24, 26-28, 31, and 32
• claims 5, 6, 13, 14, 21, 22, 29, and 30.
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