Appeal No. 96-2097
Application 08/037,983
The appealed claims stand rejected as unpatentable over
Hotaling in view of McGaughey under 35 U.S.C. § 103.
The positions of the examiner and the appellants with regard
to the propriety of these rejections are set forth in the final
rejection (Paper No. 6), the appellants' brief (Paper No. 10) and
the examiner's answer (Paper No. 14).
Appellants' Invention
Appellants disclose an electronic calendaring system which
determines, in response to an input of a date, time and duration
of a proposed meeting between a meeting requester and a second
party (target), that a conflicting event appears on the target's
electronic calendar, monitors the target's electronic calendar to
detect the removal of the conflicting event, and schedules a
meeting between the requester and the target on their electronic
calendars in response to the detection of the removal of the
conflicting event.
The Prior Art
Hotaling discloses a method performed in a data processing
system for scheduling a meeting between a requester and a target
on an electronic calendar. The system determines, in response to
an input from a requester to a file separate from each target's
personal calendar, a date, time and duration of a proposed
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