Appeal No. 1997-4463
Application 07/988,712
Appellant argues that "the Examiner has failed to cite
any reference which shows or suggests either [1] storing all
information to be outputted at a central site or [2]
outputting information from such central site at a rate
corresponding to the information utilization rate at the
remote sites" (RBr4, numbers in brackets added).
The Examiner's rejection does not address the difference
of outputting message information from a common source. As
shown in Figure 3 of Revesz, the module 10 includes module
memory 154 which stores data for the display 16, such as
pricing information (e.g., col. 8, lines 6-8). Thus, messages
to be provided at the site are read out from the module memory
154, not from a common source, such as computers 30, 32, or
36. The Examiner states that "[i]f the related product
information were exclusively stored in central storage the
rate control system claimed would be inherent" (EA6), but does
not address why it would have been obvious to output messages
from a common source instead of from the module at the site.
Thus, the rejection fails to address an express claim
limitation.
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