Appeal 2006-3387
Application 09/385,489
payment value the manufacturer will owe the retailer for conducting
the trade promotion;
before the start of the trade promotion by the retailer, storing
the captured terms of the trade promotion in an independent system
operator database;
after the start of the trade promotion by the retailer, 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
at least one of the stored (a) predetermined payment value the
manufacturer will owe the retailer for each promoted product sold by
the retailer during the trade promotion, and the stored (b)
predetermined payment value the manufacturer will owe the retailer
for conducting 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.
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