Appeal 2007-0482
Application 10/256,683
from a wireless mobile station external to the computing environment a
request for presence and locations of wireless communications subscribers
for a first geographic area. (Br. 8, Reply Br. 2). Appellant further contends
that Hashimoto does not teach either dynamically generating or selecting a
pre-generated display image of a second geographical area comprising a first
requested area. (Id.)
The Examiner, in contrast, contends that Hashimoto teaches the cited
limitations of representative claim 1 as a portable terminal of a specific
holder that requests a central system to acquire and display the position of a
third party on the holder’s portable terminal. (Answer 21). The Examiner
therefore concludes that Hashimoto, in combination with various references,
renders claims 1 through 40 unpatentable. (Id.)
We affirm.
ISSUES
The pivotal issue in the appeal before us is as follows:
(1) Under 35 U.S.C § 103(a), would one of ordinary skill in the art, at the
time of the present invention, have found that the disclosure of Hashimoto
renders the claimed invention unpatentable when Hashimoto teaches a
portable terminal of a specific holder that requests a central system to
acquire the position of a third party, and the specific holder subsequently
displays a map with its current location and that of the third party?
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