Appeal No. 2004-0199
Application No. 09/385,489
independent recording, tracking, reporting, monitoring, verifying
and clearing or settling system 24 including communicating with a
financial institution 25 through an electronic funds transfer
system. See page 19 of Appellants' specification. Referring now
to Figure 2A, manufacturers enter into agreement with the
operator of the independent system to become participating
manufacturers, as indicated by line 64, and retailers enter into
agreements with the operator of the independent system to become
participating retailers, as indicated by line 66. See page 24 of
Appellants' specification. A manufacturer generates a promotion
and presents the proposed promotion to a participating retail
buyer, as indicated in block 84. See page 30 of Appellants'
specification. The account administrator accesses the system
from an account administrator workbench 36 and uses a promotion
data entry process to enter the proposed promotion into the
database server 32 at block 88. See page 31 of Appellants'
specification.
Referring now to Figure 2C, on the day when the promotion
becomes active, the in-store point-of-sale system stores all of
the information regarding the purchase of the promoted product,
the price of the promoted product and the discount. The stored
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