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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 31, 2010
Filed:
Apr. 28, 2006
Steven J. Greenfield, Palm Harbor, FL (US);
Jeff Mount, Palm Harbor, FL (US);
Baxter Byerly, Brooksville, FL (US);
James B. Clack, St. Petersburg, FL (US);
Steven J. Greenfield, Palm Harbor, FL (US);
Jeff Mount, Palm Harbor, FL (US);
Baxter Byerly, Brooksville, FL (US);
James B. Clack, St. Petersburg, FL (US);
Catalina Marketing Corporation, St. Petersburg, FL (US);
Abstract
A reduced PID tag set specification represents POS transaction data in a manner that is largely retail store product specification independent. A reduced PID tag set specification is a tagged format specification in which a number of PID tags in the tagged format specification is less than the number of PIDs for products contained in RS POS CSs PID specification. In a preferred embodiment, there is only one tag set defined for identifying product identification datum as such. As a result, the product descriptions of all of the product identifications that exist in a retailer's product identification specification are lost when saving the same data in the preferred reduced PID tag set specification. However, saving the retailer's transaction data in a reduced PID tag set specification moots the need to know the retailer's product identification specification in order to receive, store, organize, and, to a certain extent, process the retailer's transaction data.