Appeal No. 2005-0823
Application No. 10/300,895 Page 15
Turning to IAH, we make the following findings of fact from
Section 8.6:
"ECCB was introduced into the manual ASP system in
1989 as a weekly process and changed to a daily process
in December 1994. ECCB is a critical component of
ARC’s current processing activities and is a harbinger
of the planned conversion to electronic processing
embodied in the Interactive Agent Reporting (IAR)
project" (page 1, left column).
"Failure to electronically void invalid or
canceled credit card sales by midnight on the day of
sale will result in clients being billed for the
invalid or canceled transactions" (page 1, left
column).
"Utilize CRS or ISR void formats following the day
of sale, but no later than midnight Monday following
the close of the sales week to electronically reverse
credit card sales that are returned by clients. When
Monday is a federal or legal holiday recognized by ARC
in Section 12 of this Handbook, the deadline is
extended until midnight Tuesday following the close of
the sales week.
Reversal transactions will post as credits, i.e.,
negative (-) amounts, on credit card statements" (page
1, left column).
"ECCB was designed, and extensively tested, to
remove from the ARC database any transaction that had
been electronically voided through a CRS" (page 1,
right column).
We make the following findings of fact from Section 10 of IAH:
"IAR INTERACTIVEplus (IAR) is an electronic Sales
Reporting system that was developed by Airlines
Reporting Corporation (ARC) with input from advisory
groups made up of Travel Agents. The IAR core product
was released in January 1997" (page 2, left column).
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