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          Appeal No. 95-1292                                                          
          Application 07/911,471                                                      
               the pending claims.  Claims 3 and 10 have been canceled.               
               (Paper 11 at 1.)                                                       
          B    The application on appeal was filed on 10 July 1992.  It               
               purports to be a continuation-in-part of U.S. patent                   
               application 07/728,341, filed 11 July 1991, which is                   
               expressly incorporated by reference into the present                   
               application.  (Paper 1 at 1.)                                          
          C    The title of the invention is "Apparatus for facilitating              
               the display of information relating to the origin of a third           
               source caller".  (Paper 10 at 1.)                                      
          D    Applicants address the problem of displaying Caller ID                 
               information relating to a third-party caller during an on-             
               going telephone conversation between a first party and a               
               second party.  Their invention displays third-party caller             
               information from a Caller ID service on a conventional                 
               television set or similar video device.  (Paper 1 at 4-5.)             
               They acknowledge that products for displaying Caller ID                
               information on a computer monitor already exist, but they              
               indicate that such products do not appeal to non-business              
               consumers.  (Paper 1 at 1-3.)                                          






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