Patents Assigned to Information Planning & Management Service, Inc.
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Patent number: 11715115Abstract: Compliance with retail display regulations that retailers are subject to within a plurality of jurisdictions is managed. Retail display regulations may differ from jurisdiction to jurisdiction. To facilitate compliance, retail display regulations for a plurality of jurisdictions are centrally maintained. The regulations may then be used to dynamically generate retail display materials for locations across a plurality of jurisdictions with different regulatory schemes. The central storage and/or maintenance of the retail display regulations may facilitate compliance with disparate regulatory schemes that retailers are subject to based in part of retail location. Central storage of the retail display regulations may facilitate certification of compliance by regulating entities associated with the jurisdictions.Type: GrantFiled: June 29, 2020Date of Patent: August 1, 2023Assignee: Information Planning & Management Service Inc.Inventors: Ernest James Dale, Barbara Clark Eichenser
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Patent number: 11390106Abstract: An array of printed information sheets to be placed in a business establishment includes at least two stacks of printed information sheets being detachably connected to each other. Each stack of printed information sheets includes at least a first multiple product information sheet and a second information sheet that are removably attached to each other or to the stack. The first multiple product information sheet has printed thereon first product information about a first product to be displayed in the business establishment and a first location indicator indicating a first predetermined location in the business establishment where the first multiple product information sheet is to be displayed.Type: GrantFiled: September 4, 2020Date of Patent: July 19, 2022Assignee: Information Planning and Management Service Inc.Inventors: Ernest James Dale, James Fernando Jiron
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Publication number: 20200398604Abstract: An array of printed information sheets to be placed in a business establishment includes at least two stacks of printed information sheets being detachably connected to each other. Each stack of printed information sheets includes at least a first multiple product information sheet and a second information sheet that are removably attached to each other or to the stack. The first multiple product information sheet has printed thereon first product information about a first product to be displayed in the business establishment and a first location indicator indicating a first predetermined location in the business establishment where the first multiple product information sheet is to be displayed.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 4, 2020Publication date: December 24, 2020Applicant: Information Planning and Management Service Inc.Inventors: Ernest James Dale, James Fernando Jiron
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Publication number: 20200398603Abstract: An ordered stack of bound sheets may comprise a set of printed product information sheets. An individual bound sheet may comprise a single printed product information sheet or may comprise a plurality of printed product information sheets. Each of the individual printed product information sheets may be detached from the ordered stack of bound sheets in the order in which the printed product information sheets are presented. The individual printed product information sheets (which are detached from the ordered stack in order) may be connected to structures in the stores based on a planogram for a set of products for display in the store. The order of the printed product information sheets may match an order in which the sheets are positioned based on the planogram.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 4, 2020Publication date: December 24, 2020Applicant: Information Planning and Management Service Inc.Inventors: Ernest James Dale, James Fernando Jiron, John Patrick Desmet, Nathan Andrew Rowell
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Patent number: 10800199Abstract: An ordered stack of bound sheets may comprise a set of printed product information sheets. An individual bound sheet may comprise a single printed product information sheet or may comprise a plurality of printed product information sheets. Each of the individual printed product information sheets may be detached from the ordered stack of bound sheets in the order in which the printed product information sheets are presented. The individual printed product information sheets (which are detached from the ordered stack in order) may be connected to structures in the stores based on a planogram for a set of products for display in the store. The order of the printed product information sheets may match an order in which the sheets are positioned based on the planogram.Type: GrantFiled: January 21, 2014Date of Patent: October 13, 2020Assignee: Information Planning and Management Service Inc.Inventors: Ernest James Dale, James Fernando Jiron, John Patrick Desmet, Nathan Andrew Rowell
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Patent number: 10800200Abstract: An array of printed information sheets to be placed in a business establishment includes at least two stacks of printed information sheets being detachably connected to each other. Each stack of printed information sheets includes at least a first multiple product information sheet and a second information sheet that are removably attached to each other or to the stack. The first multiple product information sheet has printed thereon first product information about a first product to be displayed in the business establishment and a first location indicator indicating a first predetermined location in the business establishment where the first multiple product information sheet is to be displayed.Type: GrantFiled: January 27, 2015Date of Patent: October 13, 2020Assignee: Information Planning and Management Service Inc.Inventors: Ernest James Dale, James Fernando Jiron
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Patent number: 10699279Abstract: Compliance with retail display regulations that retailers are subject to within a plurality of jurisdictions is managed. Retail display regulations may differ from jurisdiction to jurisdiction. To facilitate compliance, retail display regulations for a plurality of jurisdictions are centrally maintained. The regulations may then be used to dynamically generate retail display materials for locations across a plurality of jurisdictions with different regulatory schemes. The central storage and/or maintenance of the retail display regulations may facilitate compliance with disparate regulatory schemes that retailers are subject to based in part of retail location. Central storage of the retail display regulations may facilitate certification of compliance by regulating entities associated with the jurisdictions.Type: GrantFiled: May 19, 2016Date of Patent: June 30, 2020Assignee: Information Planning and Management Service Inc.Inventors: Ernest James Dale, Barbara Clark Eichenser
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Publication number: 20160267491Abstract: Compliance with retail display regulations that retailers are subject to within a plurality of jurisdictions is managed. Retail display regulations may differ from jurisdiction to jurisdiction. To facilitate compliance, retail display regulations for a plurality of jurisdictions are centrally maintained. The regulations may then be used to dynamically generate retail display materials for locations across a plurality of jurisdictions with different regulatory schemes. The central storage and/or maintenance of the retail display regulations may facilitate compliance with disparate regulatory schemes that retailers are subject to based in part of retail location. Central storage of the retail display regulations may facilitate certification of compliance by regulating entities associated with the jurisdictions.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 19, 2016Publication date: September 15, 2016Applicant: Information Planning & Management Service, Inc.Inventors: Ernest James DALE, Barbara Clark Eichenser
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Publication number: 20160217352Abstract: An array of printed information sheets to be placed in a business establishment includes at least two stacks of printed information sheets being detachably connected to each other. Each stack of printed information sheets includes at least a first multiple product information sheet and a second information sheet that are removably attached to each other or to the stack. The first multiple product information sheet has printed thereon first product information about a first product to be displayed in the business establishment and a first location indicator indicating a first predetermined location in the business establishment where the first multiple product information sheet is to be displayed.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 27, 2015Publication date: July 28, 2016Applicant: Information Planning & Management Service, Inc. d/b/a EJ CaimenInventors: Ernest James DALE, James Fernando JIRON
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Patent number: 9367851Abstract: Compliance with retail display regulations that retailers are subject to within a plurality of jurisdictions is managed. Retail display regulations may differ from jurisdiction to jurisdiction. To facilitate compliance, retail display regulations for a plurality of jurisdictions are centrally maintained. The regulations may then be used to dynamically generate retail display materials for locations across a plurality of jurisdictions with different regulatory schemes. The central storage and/or maintenance of the retail display regulations may facilitate compliance with disparate regulatory schemes that retailers are subject to based in part of retail location. Central storage of the retail display regulations may facilitate certification of compliance by regulating entities associated with the jurisdictions.Type: GrantFiled: September 17, 2009Date of Patent: June 14, 2016Assignee: Information Planning & Management Service, Inc.Inventors: Ernest James Dale, Barbara Clark Eichenser
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Publication number: 20150202907Abstract: An ordered stack of bound sheets may comprise a set of printed product information sheets. An individual bound sheet may comprise a single printed product information sheet or may comprise a plurality of printed product information sheets. Each of the individual printed product information sheets may be detached from the ordered stack of bound sheets in the order in which the printed product information sheets are presented. The individual printed product information sheets (which are detached from the ordered stack in order) may be connected to structures in the stores based on a planogram for a set of products for display in the store. The order of the printed product information sheets may match an order in which the sheets are positioned based on the planogram.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 21, 2014Publication date: July 23, 2015Applicant: Information Planning & Management Service, Inc. d/b/a EJ CaimenInventors: Ernest James DALE, James Fernando JIRON, John Patrick DESMET, Nathan Andrew ROWELL
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Patent number: 8970893Abstract: An ordered stack of bound sheets may comprise a set of printed product information sheets. An individual bound sheet may comprise a single printed product information sheet or may comprise a plurality of printed product information sheets. Each of the individual printed product information sheets may be detached from the ordered stack of bound sheets in the order in which the printed product information sheets are presented. The individual printed product information sheets (which are detached from the ordered stack in order) may be connected to structures in the stores based on a planogram for a set of products for display in the store. The order of the printed product information sheets may match an order in which the sheets are positioned based on the planogram.Type: GrantFiled: October 1, 2014Date of Patent: March 3, 2015Assignee: Information Planning & Management Service, Inc.Inventors: Ernest James Dale, James Fernando Jiron, John Patrick Desmet, Nathan Andrew Rowell
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Patent number: 8910864Abstract: The invention discloses a printed label and a display shelf for a business establishment, including a display shelf having a length and at least one area on which at least one product is to be placed. The area has a length and a depth. The label includes product information printed thereon for identifying the at least one product for display on the shelf, and first and second space indicators for indicating a position, corresponding to a portion of the length of the shelf, at which the at least one product is to be placed. The label is constructed and arranged to have a predetermined length that is coextensive with the portion of the length of the area of the shelf on which the at least one product is to be placed. The first and second space indicators define the predetermined length. The first space indicator indicates where the portion of the length of the area of the shelf begins and the second space indicator indicates where the portion of the length of the area of the shelf ends.Type: GrantFiled: March 15, 2013Date of Patent: December 16, 2014Assignee: Information Planning & Management Service, Inc.Inventors: S. Douglas Falls, Ernest J. Dale, Rod Matheson
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Patent number: 8885204Abstract: An ordered stack of bound sheets may comprise a set of printed product information sheets. An individual bound sheet may comprise a single printed product information sheet or may comprise a plurality of printed product information sheets. Each of the individual printed product information sheets may be detached from the ordered stack of bound sheets in the order in which the printed product information sheets are presented. The individual printed product information sheets (which are detached from the ordered stack in order) may be connected to structures in the stores based on a planogram for a set of products for display in the store. The order of the printed product information sheets may match an order in which the sheets are positioned based on the planogram.Type: GrantFiled: August 4, 2014Date of Patent: November 11, 2014Assignee: Information Planning & Management Service, Inc.Inventors: Ernest James Dale, James Fernando Jiron, John Patrick Desmet, Nathan Andrew Rowell
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Patent number: 8836990Abstract: An ordered stack of bound sheets may comprise a set of printed product information sheets. An individual bound sheet may comprise a single printed product information sheet or may comprise a plurality of printed product information sheets. Each of the individual printed product information sheets may be detached from the ordered stack of bound sheets in the order in which the printed product information sheets are presented. The individual printed product information sheets (which are detached from the ordered stack in order) may be connected to structures in the stores based on a planogram for a set of products for display in the store. The order of the printed product information sheets may match an order in which the sheets are positioned based on the planogram.Type: GrantFiled: January 21, 2014Date of Patent: September 16, 2014Assignee: Information Planning & Management Service, Inc.Inventors: Ernest James Dale, James Fernando Jiron, John Patrick Desmet, Nathan Andrew Rowell
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Publication number: 20140246390Abstract: Methods and apparatuses for making a stocking strip for pegboard stocking. The stocking strip includes an elongated strip containing information for locating a plurality of different products on a peg board display, a first identification number for identifying the strip, a first text area for identifying a source planogram or print job, a second text area for listing stocking location in a sales establishment which contains the pegboard display, a third text area for listing a height for the product, a demarcation for indicating a span of the position of the product on the pegboard, a product image, a product identifier, a color marker and a peg indicator for locating the peg on the pegboard display.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 6, 2014Publication date: September 4, 2014Applicant: INFORMATION PLANNING & MANAGEMENT SERVICE, INC. (IPMS)Inventors: Ernest J. DALE, Alastair J. Gregory, Berin C. Loritsch, Willis S. Duncan, Robert Dale
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Patent number: 8762212Abstract: The invention discloses a printed label and a display shelf for a business establishment, including a display shelf having a length and at least one area on which at least one product is to be placed. The area has a length and a depth. The label includes product information printed thereon for identifying the at least one product for display on the shelf, and first and second space indicators for indicating a position, corresponding to a portion of the length of the shelf, at which the at least one product is to be placed. The label is constructed and arranged to have a predetermined length that is coextensive with the portion of the length of the area of the shelf on which the at least one product is to be placed. The first and second space indicators define the predetermined length. The first space indicator indicates where the portion of the length of the area of the shelf begins and the second space indicator indicates where the portion of the length of the area of the shelf ends.Type: GrantFiled: October 15, 2007Date of Patent: June 24, 2014Assignee: Information Planning & Management Service, Inc.Inventors: S. Douglas Falls, Ernest J. Dale, Rod Matheson, A. Scott McPhillips
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Patent number: 8626613Abstract: Methods and apparatuses for making a stocking strip for pegboard stocking. The stocking strip includes an elongated strip containing information for locating a plurality of different products on a peg board display, a first identification number for identifying the strip, a first text area for identifying a source planogram or print job, a second text area for listing stocking location in a sales establishment which contains the pegboard display, a third text area for listing a height for the product, a demarcation for indicating a span of the position of the product on the pegboard, a product image, a product identifier, a color marker and a peg indicator for locating the peg on the pegboard display.Type: GrantFiled: January 10, 2003Date of Patent: January 7, 2014Assignee: Information Planning & Management Service, Inc.Inventors: Ernest J. Dale, Alastair J. Gregory, Berin C. Loritsch, Willis S. Duncan, Robert Dale
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Publication number: 20110066458Abstract: Compliance with retail display regulations that retailers are subject to within a plurality of jurisdictions is managed. Retail display regulations may differ from jurisdiction to jurisdiction. To facilitate compliance, retail display regulations for a plurality of jurisdictions are centrally maintained. The regulations may then be used to dynamically generate retail display materials for locations across a plurality of jurisdictions with different regulatory schemes. The central storage and/or maintenance of the retail display regulations may facilitate compliance with disparate regulatory schemes that retailers are subject to based in part of retail location. Central storage of the retail display regulations may facilitate certification of compliance by regulating entities associated with the jurisdictions.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 17, 2009Publication date: March 17, 2011Applicant: Information Planning & Management Service, Inc.Inventors: Ernest James Dale, Barbara Clark Eichenser
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Publication number: 20080255894Abstract: The invention discloses a printed label and a display shelf for a business establishment, including a display shelf having a length and at least one area on which at least one product is to be placed. The area has a length and a depth. The label includes product information printed thereon for identifying the at least one product for display on the shelf, and first and second space indicators for indicating a position, corresponding to a portion of the length of the shelf, at which the at least one product is to be placed. The label is constructed and arranged to have a predetermined length that is coextensive with the portion of the length of the area of the shelf on which the at least one product is to be placed. The first and second space indicators define the predetermined length. The first space indicator indicates where the portion of the length of the area of the shelf begins and the second space indicator indicates where the portion of the length of the area of the shelf ends.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 15, 2007Publication date: October 16, 2008Applicant: Information Planning & Management Service, Inc.Inventors: S. Douglas Falls, Ernest J. Dale, Rod Matheson, A. Scott McPhillips