Appeal No. 2003-0182 Page 5
Application No. 09/532,579
geographically related information and indexes the geographically related information
by subject and location, as also called for in claims 1, 11 and 18.
With regard to the second-mentioned difference, Dunworth teaches organization
of information first by geographical location and secondly by topic and subtopic so that
information which is associated with particular geographical locations can be readily
accessed (Dunworth abstract) for the benefit of users who may desire to access
information predicated upon geographical areas as opposed to by subject matter or
keyword searches (column 2, lines 28-33). Dunworth also teaches that the information
may be organized into a hierarchy of geographical areas, from large areas such as
continents to smaller areas such as countries and even smaller areas such as states
and cities. We share the examiner’s view that Dunworth would have provided ample
motivation to one of ordinary skill in the art at the time of appellant’s invention to
organize the information stored in Rosen’s resolution server first hierarchically by
geographical location and secondly by topic and subtopic so that the information may
be readily accessed based upon the geographic location of the mobile communication
system 130 so as to provide local information to the user.
In addressing the other noted difference, namely, the storage of Rosen’s user
profile in memory in the resolution server rather than within a memory on the mobile
communication system (onboard information device) as called for in claims 1, 11 and
18, the examiner states on pages 4 and 5 of the answer that:
[s]ince Rosen teaches the concept of sending information to
a mobile user retrieved based on a stored user profile, it
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