Appeal No. 2000-1722
Application No. 08/802,578
compiling a subscriber profile database comprising at least
one profile for at least one subscriber, wherein said at least
one profile comprises at least information regarding a type of
musical event preferred by said at least one subscriber;
matching musical events listed in said musical event
database with a subscriber profile from said subscriber profile
database; and
transmitting radio signals carrying musical event
information which matches a subscriber profile to that
subscriber's pager with said paging system.
The prior art references of record relied upon by the
examiner in rejecting the appealed claims are:
Champion, III et al. (Champion) 4,812,843 Mar. 14, 1989
Wang et al. (Wang) 5,649,289 Jul. 15, 1997
(filed Jul. 10, 1995)
Claims 5 through 8 and 13 through 18 stand rejected under 35
U.S.C. § 103 as being unpatentable over Wang.
Claims 5 through 12 and 14 through 17 stand rejected under
35 U.S.C. § 103 as being unpatentable over Champion.
Reference is made to the Examiner's Answer (Paper No. 15,
mailed September 28, 1999) for the examiner's complete reasoning
in support of the rejections, and to appellants' Brief (Paper No.
14, filed January 6, 1999) and Reply Brief (Paper No. 16, filed
November 12, 1999) for appellants' arguments thereagainst.
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