Sale method and system employing product price varying dependent upon valid date of product
First Claim
1. A sales method for varying the price of a product according to the elapsed period from a manufacture date/hour to time of sale by attaching the manufacture date/hour of a product to the product itself or by printing the manufacture date/hour of the product on the product in a sales method of products, each having an expiration date.
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Abstract
A sales method, a sales system, a bar code, and a bar code system, which vary a product'"'"'s price according to the period elapsed from a manufacture date/hour to time of sale and predetermined data relating to a valid period by attaching a bar code, which includes the manufacture date/hour and predetermined data relating to a valid period, to the product or by printing the bar code, each having an expiration date, are provided. Thus, when customers select products whose discount rate is varied according to date and time elapsed from manufacture date/hour, problems relating to wasting and managing vicious stocks caused by last-in first-out purchase of products occurred during conventional distribution can be improved by encouraging first-in first-out purchase of products. The invention may be embodied in a general purpose digital computer by running a program from a computer readable medium, including but not limited to storage media such as magnetic storage media (e.g., ROM'"'"'s, floppy disks, hard disks, etc.), optically readable media (e.g., CD-ROMs, DVDs, etc.) and carrier waves (e.g., transmissions over the Internet). The present invention may be embodied as a computer readable medium having a computer readable program code unit embodied therein for causing a number of computer systems connected via a network to effect distributed processing.
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- 1. A sales method for varying the price of a product according to the elapsed period from a manufacture date/hour to time of sale by attaching the manufacture date/hour of a product to the product itself or by printing the manufacture date/hour of the product on the product in a sales method of products, each having an expiration date.
- 12. A sales system in which a discount rate table and prices according to the time elapsed from a manufacture date/hour to time of sale determined by a point of sale (POS) server are transmitted through wires or wireless modem to be displayed on a price indication terminal at a display stand and are downloaded simultaneously into a POS counter and recorded in the POS counter, and the time elapsed from manufacture date/hour to time of sale is calculated by a real time clock (RTC) at the POS counter so that a discount rate and prices are determined, and a product'"'"'s price is displayed to a customer.
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20. A sales system comprising:
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a bar code including data on the country of origin, a manufacturer code, and an article code and further including a manufacture date/hour of a product, predetermined data relating to a valid period, and a predetermined identifier;
a bar code scanner for scanning the bar code;
a time stamp bar code adaptor for reading the manufacture date/hour, the valid period, and the identifier from the contents of the bar code scanned by the bar code scanner and calculating a price varied according to the period elapsed from the manufacture date/hour to time of sale, the valid period, and the identifier; and
a point of sale (POS) terminal for receiving a varied price from the time stamp bar code adaptor. - View Dependent Claims (21, 22, 23)
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24. A sales system comprising:
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a bar code including the country of origin, a manufacturer code, and an article code and further including the manufacture date/hour of a product, predetermined data relating to a valid period, and a predetermined identifier;
a bar code scanner for scanning the bar code; and
a point of sale (POS) terminal comprising a program for reading the manufacture date/hour, the valid period, and the identifier from the contents of the bar code scanned by the bar code scanner and calculating a price varied according to the period elapsed from the manufacture date/hour to time of sale, the valid period, and the identifier, and a real time clock (RTC). - View Dependent Claims (25)
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26. A sales system comprising:
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a bar code including the country of origin, a manufacturer code, and an article code and further including manufacture date/hour of a product, predetermined data relating to a valid period, and a predetermined identifier;
a bar code scanner for scanning the bar code, reading the manufacture date/hour, the valid period, and the identifier, and calculating a price varied according to the period elapsed from the manufacture date/hour to time of sale, the valid period, and the identifier, the bar code scanner comprising a real time clock (RTC); and
a point of sale (POS) terminal for receiving a varied price from the bar code scanner. - View Dependent Claims (27)
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- 28. A code for determining a varied price of a product, the code including a time stamp bar code as an extended bar code or a separate sub bar code is in a bar code used for automatic recognition of the product.
- 33. A bar code comprising a manufacture date/hour and predetermined data relating to a valid period, wherein the bar code is included in or separately attached to another bar code, which includes the country of origin, a manufacturer code, and an article code, used for automatic recognition of a product.
- 36. A bar code system for reading data relating to a price employing a discount rate varied in units of time according to the period elapsed from a manufacture date/hour indicated on a sub bar code that was included in or separately attached to a conventional bar code that the price can be automatically calculated when manufacturing a product and/or forwarding the product from a factory.
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