Data processing: financial – business practice – management – or co – Automated electrical financial or business practice or... – Operations research or analysis
Reexamination Certificate
2002-03-28
2008-08-19
Jeanty, Romain (Department: 3623)
Data processing: financial, business practice, management, or co
Automated electrical financial or business practice or...
Operations research or analysis
Reexamination Certificate
active
07415420
ABSTRACT:
Resupply, recycling and exchange of consumption items of office apparatuses made by two or more manufacturers can be facilitated by a customer support center, a supply center, office systems and customer support terminals connected via a communication network, wherein an apparatus management database, a cost and supply information database, an analysis database, and a supply management database are installed at appropriate locations, each associated with functional units such as a data acquisition unit, a data analysis unit, a report generating unit and the like for issuing purchase orders, recycling orders, exchange orders and office system improvement proposals.
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Office Action directed at corresponding Japanese Application No. 2003-353575 issued on Aug. 21, 2007.
Hosoe Yasuhiko
Takata Hisashi
Yano Takahisa
Yokoyama Yoshiaki
Jeanty Romain
Morrison & Foerster / LLP
Ricoh & Company, Ltd.
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