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...that to encourage use of his new invention, the shopping cart, market owner Sylvan Goldman hired fake shoppers to push the carts around his store in Oklahoma City? Seems his customers were reluctant to give up their hand-carried baskets.
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| Application No. | Application Title | Issue Date |
| 20110282720 | DATA PROCESSING SYSTEM AND DATA PROCESSING METHOD A method for distributing advertisement data to display terminal devices from a distribution server via a relay server. The relay server receives status notifications of the display terminal devices and transmits a tenor of receipt of the status notifications to the dis... | 11/17/2011 |
| 20100121766 | DATA PROCESSING SYSTEM AND DATA PROCESSING METHOD Advertisement video data in which coupon ID data attached to each of coupons is embedded as a watermark is distributed and reproduced; part of the video data provided by a display device (30) is captured by an image pickup section (41) of a mobile phone de... | 05/13/2010 |
| 20100076834 | DATA PROCESSING SYSTEM AND DATA PROCESSING METHOD Coupons can be easily distributed to users and, in the distribution, the illegal use of coupons is prevented. Advertisement video data embedded, by a watermark, with coupon ID data given to each coupon is generated, the advertisement video data embedded with the coupon ... | 03/25/2010 |
| 20090083149 | DATA PROCESSING SYSTEM AND DATA PROCESSING METHOD A data processing system includes a distributing device that distributes edited advertisement data, formed by an editing device, and display terminal devices that display the edited advertisement data distributed to a first place in a predetermined territory. The displa... | 03/26/2009 |
| 20060024037 | Infrared communication system and infrared signal receiving apparatus An infrared communication system is disclosed, that has a transmitter and a receiver. The transmitter includes a modulator, a first converter, an infrared transmission section. The modulator modulates a first electric signal and generates a second signal as a modulated ... | 02/02/2006 |
| 20060007005 | Communication device A communication apparatus is provided that can urge a person who is not at home such as, for example, a child to come back home when scheduled coming home time comes and can inform a notification of the time at which the child comes home, for example, to the parent. The... | 01/12/2006 |
| 20050246746 | Electronic device controlling apparatus and electronic device controlling method At a time of a movement made by a user viewing a television broadcast program, which is recorded on a hard disk device and read from the hard disk device to enable time shift viewing, and is reproduced at a TV set, the movement of the user is detected via a transmitting... | 11/03/2005 |
