Appeal No. 95-0057
Application 07/775,114
processing circuitry and memory right on the card for reading
data from the memory, processing the data by circuitry on the
card, and writing information back into the memory. Thus, one of
the main advantages of an integrated circuit card is that it can
both retrieve and store data. The Fuwa translation also
indicates that seven categories of data are “input in the IC
card.” We interpret this phrase to mean that each of the seven
categories of data exists on the card at some point. Since some
of these categories of data cannot be predetermined in advance,
such as date and time of start and end of connection, these
categories of data must be placed on the card after calls have
been made which means that the integrated circuit card of Fuwa is
written onto. We also find Fuwa’s concern with the amount of
data which can be
stored on the card to be indicative that Fuwa writes data onto
the card. If Fuwa were only an identification card as suggested
by appellants, there would be no reason to worry about the amount
of characters which could be stored on the card because such
information would not exceed the information of conventional
credit cards. Fuwa’s concern about the storage capacity of the
card can only be the result of a desire to continually add
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