Method of and system for managing and serving consumer-product related information on the world wide web (WWW) using universal product numbers (UPNS) and electronic data interchange (EDI) processes
First Claim
1. An IP-based network installed in a publishing organization and Internet-based system comprising:
- a plurality of publisher-operated client computer subsystems connected to said IP-based network, for enabling different departments within said publishing organization to manage different types of UPN/URL links based on the type of information contained within the URL-specified information resource on the WWW and within the UPN-specified section of an article of print media.
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Abstract
A novel Internet-based consumer product information system and method for use in retail shopping environments, wherein each Web-enabled bar code driven consumer product information kiosk deployed therewithin embodies e-mail messaging capabilities which enable consumers to automatically save and record the URLs of CPI-related Web documents within the message field of a preformatted e-mail message that is transmitted from a retailer-operated e-mail server, to a remote e-mail address specified by the consumer within the retail shopping environment. One or more central e-mail servers are used to collect copies of e-mail documents (and records thereof) transmitted from the Web/e-mail enabled kiosks within each retail shopping environments, for consumer and demographic information analysis, compilation, and storage within RDBMSs that are made accessible to retailers and manufacturers alike for use in product marketing, sales forecasting, customer intelligence, and like operations which enable more effective marketing of consumer products and services in both physical and electronic forms of commerce.
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42 Claims
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1. An IP-based network installed in a publishing organization and Internet-based system comprising:
a plurality of publisher-operated client computer subsystems connected to said IP-based network, for enabling different departments within said publishing organization to manage different types of UPN/URL links based on the type of information contained within the URL-specified information resource on the WWW and within the UPN-specified section of an article of print media. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4)
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5. An Internet-based consumer product information system for use in a retail shopping environment, comprising:
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an e-mail server; and
a plurality of Web-enabled bar code driven consumer product information kiosks deployed within a retail shopping environment, and each said Web-enabled bar code driven consumer product information kiosk embodying e-mail messaging capabilities which enable consumers to automatically save and link CPI-related Web documents as individual attachments to-a preformatted e-mail envelope that is transmitted from said e-mail server, to a remote e-mail address specified by the consumer within said retail shopping environment. - View Dependent Claims (6, 7, 8)
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9. An Internet-based consumer product information system for use in a retail shopping environment, comprising:
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an e-mail server; and
a plurality of Web-enabled bar code driven consumer product information kiosks deployed within a retail shopping environment, and each said Web-enabled bar code driven consumer product information kiosk embodies e-mail messaging capabilities which enable consumers to automatically save and record the URLs of CPI-related Web documents within the message field of a preformatted e-mail envelope that is transmitted from said e-mail server, to a remote e-mail address specified by the consumer within said retail shopping environment. - View Dependent Claims (10, 11)
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- 12. The Internet-based consumer product information system of claim 11, which further comprises a relation data base management subsystem for use in analyzing compiling and storing data contained within said central e-mail server, and for making such information accessible to retailers and manufacturers alike for use in product marketing, sales forecasting, customer intelligence, and like operations which enable more effective marketing of consumer products and services in both physical and electronic forms of commerce.
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12-1. An Internet-based information system, comprising:
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an IP-based network installed in a retail shopping environment and connected to the infrastructure of the Internet by way of an IP-based router; and
a plurality of publisher-operated client subsystems connected to said IP-based network, for the purpose of enabling different departments within the publishing organization (e.g. advertising, world news, business, technology, sports, finance, education, arts and leisure, etc.) to manage different types of UPN/URL links based on the type of information contained within the URL-specified information resource on the WWW.
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22. An Internet-based client subsystem for operation by a publisher of print-media based documents and Web-based documents, comprising:
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a computing platform; and
a publishing software program for executing on said computing platform, and having a composition/editing mode of operation and a UPN/URL data linking, mode of operation, wherein said publishing software program simultaneously enables the composition and edition a Web-based document and corresponding a print-media based document. - View Dependent Claims (23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34, 35, 36, 37)
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38. A retail-based system for installation in retail store comprising:
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a subsystem of shelves for supporting one or more UPN-encoded products; and
a plurality of Web-enabled bar code symbol driven kiosks mounted relative to said subsystem of shelves, for reading UPN-encoded symbols on said UPN-encoded products and automatically linking to a plurality of URLs pointing to one or more Web-based documents on the WWW linked to the read UPN by the manufacturer of the product and/or agents thereof using a manufacturer-operated client computer subsystem connected to the infrastructure of the Internet and having electronic data interchange capabilities.
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39. An Internet-enabled bar code driven consumer product information kiosk for deployment within a retail shopping environment, comprising:
a computing platform having embodying e-mail messaging capabilities which enable consumers to automatically save and link CPI-related Web documents as individual attachments to a preformatted e-mail envelope that is transmitted from said e-mail server, to a remote e-mail address specified by the consumer within said retail shopping environment. - View Dependent Claims (40)
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41. Internet-enabled bar code driven consumer product information kiosks for deployment within a retail shopping environment, comprising:
a computing platform having embodying e-mail messaging capabilities which enable embodies e-mail messaging capabilities which enable consumers to automatically save and record the URLs of CPI-related Web documents within the message field of a preformatted e-mail envelope that is transmitted from said e-mail server, to a remote e-mail address specified by the consumer within said retail shopping environment.
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42. The Internet-enabled bar code driven consumer product information kiosk of claim 43, wherein said preformatted e-mail envelope is addressed with the consumer/shopper'"'"'s home, office or like e-mail address by either reading an e-mail address encoded within a bar code (or magnetic-stripe) structure or manually entering the same within the addressee field, and said e-mail envelope is transported to its destination by manual selection of a “
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button within the displayed e-mail envelope.
- send”
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