Appeal No. 95-0057
Application 07/775,114
This is a decision on the appeal under 35 U.S.C. § 134
from the examiner's rejection of claims 1, 4-12 and 14, which
constitute all the claims remaining in the application.
The claimed invention pertains to a cellular telephone
system in which the handset is equipped with an integrated
circuit card reader for storing information regarding phone call
transactions on an integrated circuit card as the phone calls are
made.
Representative claim 1 is reproduced as follows:
1. An apparatus for controlling and recording cellular
phone call transactions for use in a cellular telephone system,
the system containing a remote unit having a radio transceiver, a
handset and a logic bus, the apparatus comprising:
(a) remote card reader interface means for writing and
reading information to and from an integrated circuit card placed
in the remote card reader;
(b) logic bus interface means for connecting a processing
means to the logic bus of the transceiver;
(c) processing means connected to the logic bus interface
means and remote card reader interface means for processing
information observed on the logic bus or read from the card, said
information including phone call transaction information; and
(d) the processing means further including means for
controlling the remote unit in response to information read from
the card and for writing phone call transaction information to an
integrated circuit card placed in the remote card reader, the
phone call transaction information including at least the phone
number and duration for each call processed by on the remote
unit.
The examiner relies on the following references:
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