Method of producing an ordered stack of bound product information sheets for a store from planogram or ordered data

• US 8,970,893 B1
• Filed: 10/01/2014
• Issued: 03/03/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 01/21/2014
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Information Planning and Management Service Incorporated
• Original Assignee: Information Planning and Management Service Incorporated
• Inventors: Dale, Ernest James, Jiron, James Fernando, Desmet, John Patrick, Rowell, Nathan Andrew
• Primary Examiner(s): Riley, Marcus T
• Application Number:
  US14/504,407
• Time in Patent Office: 153 Days
• Field of Search: None
• US Class Current: 358/1.16
• CPC Class Codes: B42B 5/08 by finger, claw or ring-like elements passing through the sheets, quires or signatures
• CPC Class Codes: B42C 19/02 starting with single sheets
• CPC Class Codes: B42C 19/04 starting with signatures
• CPC Class Codes: B42D 1/06 in which the fillings and covers are united by other means
• CPC Class Codes: B42F 11/00 Filing appliances with separate intermediate holding means B42F17/00 takes precedence; with adhesive strips for mounting papers or sheets B42D1/10
• CPC Class Codes: B42F 5/00 Sheets and objects temporarily attached together; Means therefor; Albums bookbinding aspects of albums B42D1/08; advertising or display aspects G09
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/1208 resulting in improved quality of the output result, e.g. print layout, colours, workflows, print preview
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/1243 Variable data printing, e.g. document forms, templates, labels, coupons, advertisements, logos, watermarks, transactional printing, fixed content versioning
• CPC Class Codes: G06K 15/404 Managing other optional outputs, e.g. collators, staplers
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/00 Administration; Management
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/087 Inventory or stock management, e.g. order filling, procurement or balancing against orders

Abstract

An ordered stack of bound sheets may comprise a set of printed product information sheets. An individual bound sheet may comprise a single printed product information sheet or may comprise a plurality of printed product information sheets. Each of the individual printed product information sheets may be detached from the ordered stack of bound sheets in the order in which the printed product information sheets are presented. The individual printed product information sheets (which are detached from the ordered stack in order) may be connected to structures in the stores based on a planogram for a set of products for display in the store. The order of the printed product information sheets may match an order in which the sheets are positioned based on the planogram.

Claims

1. A computer-implemented method of producing an ordered stack of at least first and second bound sheets comprising a set of printed product information sheets to be placed in a store, the method being implemented in a computer system comprising one or more physical processors and one or more printers, the method comprising:

accessing, by the one or more physical processors, planogram information for a set of products for display in a store, wherein the planogram information comprises information identifying the set of products for display and information identifying a corresponding set of locations in the store at which the respective set of products are to be displayed;

apportioning, by the one or more physical processors, the set of products to a set of product information sheets, wherein a first product information sheet is associated with at least a first product and a second product information sheet is associated with at least a second product;

printing, by the one or more printers, first information on a first product information sheet, the first information comprising at least first product information about a first product to be displayed in the store and a first order indicator indicating a first order of the first product information sheet based on a planogram of the store, thereby producing a first printed product information sheet; and

printing, by the one or more printers, second information on a second product information sheet, the second information comprising at least second product information about a second product to be displayed in the store and a second order indicator indicating a second order of the second product information sheet based on the planogram of the store, thereby producing a second printed product information sheet,

securing the first printed production information sheet to the first bound sheet of the ordered stack of bound sheets;

securing the second printed product information sheet to the second bound sheet of the ordered stack of bound sheets;

ordering the first bound sheet and the second bound sheet according to the first order indicator printed on the first printed product information sheet and the second order indicator printed on the second printed product information sheet, thereby producing ordered first and second bound sheets, and

binding the ordered first and second bound sheets to produce the ordered stack of at least the first and second bound sheets.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein binding the ordered first and second bound sheets comprises:

binding the first bound sheet by adhesive to the second bound sheet, wherein the second bound sheet is adjacent to the first bound sheet in the ordered stack.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein binding the ordered first and second bound sheets comprises:

binding the first bound sheet by a glue binding at an edge of the first bound sheet to the other bound sheets of the ordered stack.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein ordering the first bound sheet and the second bound sheet comprises:

ordering the first bound sheet and the second bound sheet based on a first location at which the first bound sheet is to be placed according to the planogram of the store and a second location at which the second bound sheet is to be placed according to the planogram.

5. The method of claim 4, wherein the first bound sheet is adjacent to the bound sheet in the ordered stack, and wherein the third location is immediately adjacent the second location in the planogram of the store.

6. The method of claim 1, wherein printing first product information on the first product information sheet comprises printing first product price label information, wherein the first product price label information comprises a description of the first product and a price of the first product.

7. The method of claim 1, wherein printing first product information on the first product information sheet comprises printing first retailer-specific information, wherein the first retailer-specific information comprises one or more of:

a promotion related to the first product or cross-sell information related to the first product.

8. The method of claim 1, wherein printing the first information on the first product information sheet comprises printing first planogram information, the first planogram information comprising one or more of:

textual information describing a first location at which the first printed product information sheet is to be placed in the store or a graphic depiction of the first location.

9. The method of claim 1, wherein printing the first information on the first product information sheet comprises third product information about a third product to be displayed in the store.

10. A computer-implemented method of producing an ordered stack of at least first and second bound sheets comprising a set of printed product information sheets to be placed in a store, the method being implemented in a computer system comprising one or more physical processors and one or more printers, the method comprising:

receiving the set of printed product information sheets including at least first and second printed product information sheets, the set of printed product information sheets comprising;

the first printed product information sheet having printed thereon first product information about a first product to be displayed in the store and a first order indicator indicating a first order of the first printed product information sheet based on a planogram of the store; and

the second printed product information sheet having printed thereon second product information about a second product to be displayed in the store and a second order indicator indicating a second order of the second printed product information sheet based on the planogram of the store,

securing the first printed production information sheet to the first bound sheet of the ordered stack of bound sheets;

securing the second printed product information sheet to the second bound sheet of the ordered stack of bound sheets;

ordering the first bound sheet and the second bound sheet according to the first order indicator printed on the first printed product information sheet and the second order indicator printed on the second printed product information sheet, thereby producing ordered first and second bound sheets, and

binding the ordered first and second bound sheets to produce the ordered stack of at least the first and second bound sheets.