Home terminal and shopping system

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1995-10-04

1999-02-09

Thomas, Joseph

Data processing: financial, business practice, management, or co

Automated electrical financial or business practice or...

Electronic shopping

705 8, 705 10, 705 16, 705 20, 705 21, 705 22, 705 24, 705 28, 235383, G06F 1760, G06F15300

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058707166

ABSTRACT:
A shopping system includes store terminals for registering purchase and sale of items, a store processor for collectively managing the store terminals, electronic shelf labels capable of setting classification, etc., of the items, an item information data base for storing the classification of the items and the electronic shelf labels from information from the electronic shelf labels in such a manner as to correspond to each other, and home terminals for executing edition from the information from the store terminal or the store processor by a predetermined logic. The home terminal in this system accumulates the item information from the store terminal as history, determines a mean purchase interval of individual items, and decides and notifies the items to be purchased to the shopper by purchase item determination process of a next shopping day and a next-of-next shopping day inputted by the shopper.

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