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US 2004/0177004 A1Published application
Digital advertisement board in communication with point-of-sale terminals
OwnerRaymond J. Mueller, Andrew S. Van Lucheneinventors
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Abstract
A price associated with a menu item is determined automatically based at least in part on revenue management information. A menu display is updated on an electronic display device such as a digital menu board to include the automatically-determined price.
Claims43
An apparatus comprising:
- means for determining a price for a menu item;
- and
- means for automatically updating a menu displayed at a digital menu board based on the determined price for the menu item.
A method comprising:
- automatically determining a price for a first menu item based on retail information;
- updating an electronic menu display based on the automatically-determined price for the first menu item;
- and
- updating product information for use by a point-of-sale terminal based on the automatically-determined price for the first menu item,
- at substantially the same time the electronic menu display is updated.
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A method comprising:
- updating a display at a digital display board,
- the updated display including a first menu item and a price associated with the first menu item;
- determining a time lag for updating menu information at a point-of-sale terminal after updating the display;
- and
- after a period of time after updating the display, automatically updating menu information at the point-of-sale terminal,
- the updated menu information including the first menu item and the price associated with the first menu item,
- in which the period of time is not less than the determined time lag.
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A method comprising:
- generating a display on a digital display board, the display including at least one first menu item and a respective price associated with each menu item;
- determining a transaction history;
- and
- automatically updating the display based on the determined transaction history.
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A method comprising:
- determining a plurality of menu items;
- determining a number of presentation slots of a digital display board;
- determining a transaction history;
- automatically selecting at least one menu item from the plurality of menu items to display on the digital display board based on the transaction history and the number of available presentation slots;
- and
- generating a menu display at the digital display board based on the selected at least one menu item.
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A method comprising:
- determining a plurality of items, each item being associated with respective display content;
- determining an transaction history;
- determining a number of available presentation slots of a digital display board;
- selecting at least one of the determined plurality of items to display based on the transaction history and the respective display content;
- and
- generating a menu display based on the selected at least one item and the display content associated respectively with each selected item.
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A method comprising:
- generating a display on a digital display board, the display including at least one menu item and a respective price associated with each menu item;
- determining revenue management information;
- and
- automatically updating the respective price of at least one of the at least one menu item based on the determined revenue management information.
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A method for displaying a menu, comprising:
- automatically determining a price associated with a menu item based at least in part on revenue management information;
- and
- transmitting an indication of the automatically determined price to a digital display board for display of the automatically determined price in a menu.
A digital menu generating system, comprising:
- a storage device storing price information, the price information comprising prices associated with a plurality of menu items;
- a processor coupled to the storage device, the processor being configured to:
- generate information associated with a menu;
- and
- dynamically update prices stored in said storage device based at least in part on revenue management information;
- and
- a port in communication with the processor, the port being adapted to output the information associated with the menu.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.