Appeal No. 2006-1918
Application No. 10/279,529
THE INVENTION
The invention relates to an integrated product assortment planning and shelf
management system for retail locations. See pages 2 and 3 of appellant’s specification.
Claim 1 is representative of the invention and is reproduced below:
1. A method for integrating and displaying information to assist a user in
selecting an assortment of retail products for display on a shelf, the method
comprising:
receiving electronic item assortment information for each of the retail
products;
receiving electronic shelf management information for each of the retail
products; and
processing the received electronic item assortment information and
electronic shelf management information to produce one of forecasted sales
information and forecasted supply information for the retail products; and
displaying the one of the forecasted sales information and forecasted
supply information for the retail products in combination with a representation of
the assortment of the retail products for display on the shelf.
THE REFERENCES
The references relied upon by the examiner are:
Tenma 4,947,322 Aug. 07, 1990
Usrey 6,366,890 Apr. 02, 2002 (Feb. 27, 1998)
“Information resources Introduces Apollo 8.0 to Offer Enhanced Shelf
Merchandising and Execution Capabilities” Business Wire, page 1546 (May 8, 2000).1
Pictures from “The Fixtures Group” web site, providing definition of Gondola
(undated).
1 The examiner refers to this document as “Article 5/2000” for consistency we will also
refer to it as “Article 5/2000.”
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