Appeal 2007-0770
Application 09/752,330
1 INVENTION
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3 The invention is directed to a method for facilitating electronic transactions
4 over the internet. Often purchasers will have contractual agreements with sellers to
5 purchase goods or services at special prices (entitled prices). These prices are
6 often not made public, however agents of the purchasers need to be able to
7 ascertain the entitled price over a public network, the internet. The invention
8 provides a method for the entitled price to be obtained over a public network. See
9 pages 2 through 4 of Appellants’ Specification. Claim 1 is representative of the
10 invention and reproduced below:
11 1. A method of providing an entitled price in an electronic
12 transaction, comprising:
13 electronically sending by a requestor a request for an entitled price
14 based on a preexisting entitlement from a public electronic environment;
15 automatically routing the request to a private electronic environment;
16 obtaining the entitled price within the private electronic environment
17 in real time while the requestor waits; and
18 automatically returning the entitled price from the private electronic
19 environment to the public electronic environment for providing to the
20 requestor.
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23 REFERENCES
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25 The references relied upon by the Examiner are:
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27 Lidow US 6,889,197 B2 May 3, 2005
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29 Mantena US 6,999,949 B2 Feb. 14, 2006
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31 Roberto Michel, “Multiplatform Pursuits” Manufacturing
32 Systems, Nov. 1998, Vol. 16, Iss. 11, p. 44. (Multiplatform)
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