Appeal No. 2002-2180
Application No. 09/089,011
BACKGROUND
The present invention relates to a scheduling system by which a user may
manage scheduling and attendance of a meeting. Meeting attendees may be notified if
the user will be late for the appointed meeting. Representative claim 32 is reproduced
below.
32. A method for managing a scheduling system, comprising the steps of:
determining meeting status information based on information about an
appointment and information about a user;
automatically generating an attendee notification message, using stored
attendee notification information, based on the meeting status information;
receiving a response from an attendee of the appointment to the attendee
notification message, the response changing the time of the appointment.
The examiner relies on the following references:
Jones et al. (Jones) 5,400,020 Mar. 21, 1995
Tognazzini 5,790,974 Aug. 4, 1998
(filed Apr. 29, 1996)
Conmy et al. (Conmy) 6,101,480 Aug. 8, 2000
(filed Jun. 19, 1998)1
Claims 1, 17, and 30-32 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 102 as being
anticipated by Conmy.
Claims 2-9, 12-16, 18-23, 29, and 33-35 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 103 as
being unpatentable over Conmy and Jones.
1 The patent claims benefit from U.S. provisional application 60/050,155, filed June 19, 1997.
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