Appeal No. 1997-2700
Application 08/307,249
the form of a system prompt which asks the caller to input
personal information such as social security or account
numbers (Hunt, column 7, line 1). The call in question will
not be completed until the caller satisfies this risk factor
condition by providing the correct personal information.
For all of the above reasons, the Examiner’s 35 U.S.C.
§ 102(e) rejection of independent claims 1, 11, and 19 is
sustained.
Turning to a consideration of dependent claims 2, 10 and
12, separately argued by Appellant, we sustain the 35 U.S.C. §
102(e) rejection of these claims as well. Dependent claims 2
and 12 are directed to the determination made after a matching
process is performed as whether a call is to be completed. In
our view, the passages from Hunt discussed supra relating to
the introduction of the personal information system prompt
clearly meet such requirement. It is further our opinion that
the risk factors in Hunt are clearly resident in an “audio
response unit” as broadly recited in dependent claim 10.
Dependent claims 3, 8, 9, 13, 18, 20, and 24 have not been
argued separately and, accordingly, fall with their base
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