Appeal No. 96-2121
Application 08/252,984
calling the subscriber remote telephone
number through the first telephone connection
means after the subscriber terminates the
incoming call attempt and connecting to the
subscriber telephone station;
receiving from the subscriber a calling
telephone number for the destination station;
calling the calling telephone number through
the second telephone connection means; and
for
bridging the first telephone connection means
to the second telephone connection means so
that the subscriber is connected to the
destination.
Opinion
The Indefiniteness Rejection
With regard to claim 18, the examiner objects to the
appellant’s use in claim 18 of the language "caller information."
According to the examiner, the reference should, instead, be made
to "subscriber information," since only a subscriber’s
information would be stored in the database. The examiner’s view
is misplaced. There is no requirement in the claim that every
caller must have corresponding stored information in the
database. Subscribers are a subset of all possible callers and
thus are themselves callers. We see nothing indefinite about the
appellant’s defining that the database stores caller information.
With regard to line 22 of claim 18, the examiner asserts
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