Appeal No. 2000-1503
Application 08/655,126
and the examiner both agree that Fuller fails to teach the
inputting of a selection number by a calling party, and the
transmission of the message that corresponds to that selection
number to the calling party (brief, page 5; answer, page 4).
In view of the acknowledged shortcoming in the teachings of
Fuller, the examiner turns to the facsimile teachings of
Gordon. The examiner explains (answer, page 5) that “[s]ince
Fuller and Gordon are directed to delivery of facsimile data
from a first machine to a local facsimile machine remote from
the first facsimile machine, the purpose of assigning or
identifying a stored message with a numeric representation
would have been recognized by Fuller as clearly set for [sic,
forth] by the designation of a desired message number (col.
12, line 61 of Gordon).” The examiner then concludes (answer,
page 5) that “[i]t would have been obvious to one of ordinary
skill in the art to replace the ‘index’ of facsimile messages
(col. 6, lines 54) as discussed by Fuller with a numeric
representation of a message such that the ‘selected number’,
corresponding to a message, can be used to list and retrieve
those messages which are desired by the user instead of
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