Appeal 2007-1409
Application 09/823,626
data reports organized by sales representative would be generated to show
sales by providing one report where the hyperlinks are used to show the
various aspects of sales. (Col. 17, l. 48- Col. 18, l. 5, and Col. 20 ll. 30-49.)
Tabb’s disclosure does not include a teaching directed to determining the
occurrence of an event or enabling e-mail notification of the occurrence of
an event.
Woloshin teaches a system for paperless approval of electronic
commerce accounts. Abstract. The system allows a merchant to sign up to
become an online merchant. The merchant completes an online application
on the web site of a partner, an entity that enables online merchants. Para.
[0018]. When the merchant completes the application, three e-mails are
created, one to the merchant, one to the partner, and one to the merchant
service provider’s sales representative. Para. [0020]. While Woloshin does
teach e-mail notification of a change in status between a customer and sales
representative, receiving a merchant’s application Woloshin does not teach
that the sales representative has the option of whether or not to receive the e-
mail (i.e. there is no disclosed feature to enable or disable e-mail
notification).
Gifford teaches a system that allows a subscriber to receive e-mail
notification of receipt of non-literal communications such as voice mail or
facsimile. Abstract. Upon receiving a non-literal message the system
determines whether the subscriber has enabled notification and if the
subscriber has elected to receive an enriched e-mail notification (an e-mail
with a link to the non-literal communication). If the subscriber enabled e-
mail notification the system then sends an e-mail to (non-enriched or
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