Ex Parte Seligmann - Page 9
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Appeal No. 2006-3323
Application No. 10/287,151
upon the expanding data base covering vehicles traveling on
the particular route under similar operating conditions at
similar times of the day, week and month, and schedules.
[Emphasis added].
With the above discussion in mind, we find that with regard to
representative claim 1, the Schmier reference teaches an
information system for notifying passengers waiting for public
transportation of arrival times of public transit vehicles.
Particularly, Schmier teaches a public transit vehicle equipped
with a mobile communication system including a GPS that transmits a
signal to a central computer for notifying the latter of the
current location of the public transit vehicle. Upon receiving the
vehicle location signal, the central computer estimates the time of
arrival of the vehicle to a particular station based upon the
received location signal and historical statistic pertaining to the
same itinerary. The central computer subsequently sends the
estimated time of arrival for a particular vehicle at a particular
stop directly to the passenger waiting at the station or to a
public display at the station for all passengers to see. Schmier
also teaches that the central computer may also estimate time
intervals between adjacent transit stops.
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