Appeal 2006-3350
Application 10/287,411
appliance when a communications channel is established. Examiner
indicates in his Answer 3:
The Sai INFORMATION DISPLAY CONTROL APPARATUS
AND METHOD patent discloses in response to receiving input
from the user requesting that the program be recorded, storing in a
memory of the portable device data indicative of the recording
request; (see col. 8, ll. 8-67). It would have been obvious to one of
an ordinary skill in the art, having the teaching of Huang and Sai
before him at the time the invention was made, to modify in
response to receiving input from the user requesting that the
program be recorded, storing in a memory of the portable device
data indicative of the recording request as taught by Sai to a PDA
platform of Huang.
5. Though Sai teaches the storage of a request to record a TV program,
we find that the device and method of Sai are significantly different
from the claimed invention, and different from Huang. There is no
provision in Sai for the display of the program guide on the handheld
portable unit; rather the program guide is on the TV. (See the portable
device in Figure 2, and the diagram including the Display 12 in Figure
1). We thus find that the system of Sai does not refer to a similar
environment nor to a similar function as that claimed. A user of the
Sai system cannot be outside of the range of viewing the program
guide on the TV to make his selection, while the claimed environment
is designed for the selection specifically while the user is outside of
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