Patent ID: 9189803
Filing Date: 2015-11-17
Classification: G06Q

Abstract:
1. A method of discounting products during a retail transaction comprising: a) at a server system, transmitting a first list of promoted products to a retail store system, the first list of promoted products containing product identifiers for the promoted products and, for at least two products, a common group identifier; b) at the retail store system, operating a point of sale terminal having a product scanner to scan product identifiers relating to products from a single purchase transaction; c) at the retail store system, generating a filtered list of products being purchased in the single transaction at the retail store system by filtering the data received from the product scanner against the first list of promoted products, d) at the retail store system, transmitting the filtered list of products being purchased to the server system; e) at the server system, calculating an aggregated discount for the first set of products reported in the filtered list of products, and separately calculating a discount for each product in the second set of products reported in the filtered list of products; f) at the server system, transmitting the calculated aggregated discount and the separately calculated discounts to the retail store system; and g) at the point of sale terminal at the retail store system, applying the aggregated discount and the separately calculated discounts to the single purchase transaction.