Appeal No. 97-3671
Application 08/266,977
The Rejections on Appeal
Claims 8-15 stand finally rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 103.
In the answer, the examiner did not expressly state the basis
of the ground of rejection. We assume that the rejection is
rendered on the basis of Milnes, Langhans, Clark and Pfost.
The Invention
The invention is directed to a method for effecting
selective access to events or transactions. Access to the
events or transactions being restricted by both identity and a
predetermined number of permissible access. The sole
independent claim on appeal is reproduced below:
8. An access system for determining access to an event
or transaction for a bearer of a data holding article, the
bearer having a personal identifier, access to the event or
transaction being dependent on the satisfaction of
predetermined bearer identification requirements and the
existence of prior occurrences, the method employing the data
holding article and an information processing apparatus; the
method comprising the steps of
providing a data holding article, the data holding
article having recorded thereon machine-readable data, the
machine-readable data including encoded data representative of
a bearer’s personal identifier, the machine-readable data
including encoded data representative of at least one event or
transaction, each event or transaction having a predetermined
number of permissible occurrences;
providing information processing apparatus, the
information processing apparatus having means for reading the
encoded event-related or transactional data, the information
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