Appeal No. 1998-0660
Application No. 08/584,501
Another missing element argued is “recording customer
identification with the digital image.” The Examiner
responds:
[T]he image source device in the Gordon et al.
system clearly must record customer PINs in order to
correctly recognize valid and invalid supplied PINs.
[Answer-page 8.]
We do not agree. The PIN supplied at the receiving end
of Gordon need not be transmitted with the image document.
The receiving FAX machine may be programmed to recognize the
recipient’s PIN for any secured document received. Since the
Examiner has not indicated where Gordon discloses sending the
PIN with the image document, it is not at all “clear” as
alleged by the Examiner.
Another missing element argued is “a display device
responsive to actuation of the customer identification
device.” Although it is understood that APA provides a display
device, the Examiner has not shown how the art teaches or
would have suggested the display being responsive to a
customer identification device. The only identification
alleged by the Examiner is with regard to the recipient of a
secured FAX via a PIN.
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