Appeal No. 2004-0199
Application No. 09/385,489
facilitate settlement of the promotion by such options as
electronic fund transfer payment.
Appellants' independent claims 1 and 33 are representative
of the claimed invention and are reproduced as follows:
1. A method for an independent system operator to administer a
trade promotion for a product involving a manufacturer and a
retailer having at least one store with an in-store POS system,
said method comprising the steps of the independent system
operator:
capturing terms of the trade promotion at least including
promoted product identification and payment term information for
said trade promotion;
storing the captured terms of the trade promotion in an
independent system operator database;
collecting from the retailer product POS data from at least
one in-store POS system of the retailer;
filtering the product POS data using the promoted product
identification stored in the independent system operator database
to obtain promoted product POS data;
processing the promoted product POS data in accordance with
the stored payment term information of the trade promotion in the
independent system operator database to determine an amount of
money the manufacturer owes to the retailer for the trade
promotion; and
facilitating the manufacturer's payment of the amount of
money owed to the retailer for the trade promotion.
33. A method for enabling a retailer and a manufacturer involved
in a plurality of trade promotions for a plurality of products to
independently verify the terms of the trade promotions, said
method comprising the steps of:
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