Appeal No. 95-1292
Application 07/911,471
and 13-21 in view of Takabayashi and Ueno (Paper 11 at 2);
claims 5 and 12 in view of Takabayashi, Ueno, and Griffith
(Paper 11 at 4); claims 1, 2, 4, 6-9, 11, 13-16, 18, and 20
in view of Krisbergh and Ueno (Paper 11 at 5); claims 17,
19, and 21 in view of Krisbergh, Ueno, and Takabayashi
(Paper 11 at 7); claims 5 and 12 in view of Krisbergh, Ueno,
and Griffith (Paper 11 at 7).
Fact findings 7 through 11 would have been known to a person
having ordinary skill in the art at the time of the invention.
G The Takabayashi reference teaches a caller ID system in
which the name of the caller is displayed on a conventional
television screen. (Abstract; p. 1.) Takabayashi notes
that displaying the caller's name is an improvement over the
prior art, which only displayed the caller's telephone
number. (p. 1-2.) He does not disclose the display of a
third-party's information when the telephone is already in
use.
H The Ueno reference is directed to displaying a third-party
caller ("C") using a "TV phone" to one of two callers ("A"
and "B") already in conversation using a TV phone system.
According to Ueno, the prior art only permitted a kind of
Call Waiting function, where if C called B, B would have to
put A on hold to learn the identity of C. As Ueno notes, if
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