Appeal No. 1998-0015
Application No. 08/388,058
The client provides a client service
locations file 109 (Fig. 1A) of service
locations in machine readable form with
information and format as shown in Table 3.
The file 109 can be created by, for example,
a commonly available word processing program
or a database program, and submitted on a
floppy disk or other suitable media . . .
[column 15, lines 60-65].
The service radius (e.g. 2.5 mile radius from
the Mypizza Restorante) of the Moore et al. patent
is determined from a centroid table for each zip+4
zip code entry. If the zip+4 is determined to be at
or inside the service area radius, a raw client
table record is written that includes the zip+4
code, the client telephone number for the instant
service location and the distance of the zip+4
centroid to the service location.
Appellant concludes (Brief, page 7) that “[t]here is
absolutely nothing in Moore et al. which suggests that a
graphical user interface is utilized to define the service
area.”
In response to appellant’s argument, the examiner
contends (Answer, page 4) that “the Moore et al. reference
does provide for the use of a graphical user interface in that
it suggests using a commercially available GIS (Geographic
Information System - a computer program that provides visual
interpretation of information represented by a coordinate
system) such as Infomark for Windows (col. 23, lines 13-25).”
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