Appeal No. 2005-0508
Application No. 09/024,923
decision. Arguments which appellant could have made but chose
not to make in the brief have not been considered and are deemed
to be waived (see 37 CFR § 41.37(c)(1)(vii)(2004)).
With respect to representative independent claim 1, the
examiner essentially finds that Iwami teaches the claimed
invention except that Iwami does not specifically disclose that
the LAN network includes the Internet. Since Iwami discloses
that the LAN can run TCP/IP or UDP/IP protocols, the examiner
finds that the LAN could be the Internet. The examiner also
cites Chang as teaching the completion of calls between a
computer and a telephone. The examiner finds that it would also
have been obvious to the artisan to include the Internet as
taught by Chang with the method and system of Iwami (answer,
pages 3-4).
Appellant argues that the operation taught by Iwami does
not meet the claimed “extracting specific data encoded into the
incoming call either COST or IPNT, and using the extracted data
to access the look-up table to determine an associated COST
number or IP address as claimed” (brief, page 10). Appellant
also argues that Iwami fails to teach processing an incoming
Internet call and only deals with incoming COST calls. Appellant
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