Appeal No. 97-2524
Application 08/255,128
driver” and give instructions while in a car for some route
[column 21, lines 2-4]. These instructions of the driver
would include the driver’s own timing preferences. Davis
discloses that the Back Seat Driver learns the style of
instruction giving appropriate for each user. Finally, Davis
observes that the Back Seat Driver will collect user
information and offer instructions without being asked. These
disclosures of Davis would clearly suggest to the artisan that
the user-models in Davis contain driver instruction timing
preferences as broadly recited in claim 1.
The broad recitation of determining a degree of
conformance is also disclosed in Davis because Davis generates
an instruction when a specific location based on driver
preference has been reached. That is, the degree of
conformance in Davis is that a specific location as desired by
the driver must be reached and the instruction generated at
that time. This operation broadly meets the recitations of
claim 1. Therefore, we sustain the rejection of claim 1 as
anticipated by the disclosure of Davis. Since independent
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