Ex parte SMITH et al. - Page 3




          Appeal No. 96-3758                                                          
          Application 08/252,832                                                      


          been entered (Paper No. 16).  It made modifications to numerous             


          claims.  In response, the examiner still maintained the                     
          rejections first made in the examiner’s answer (Paper No. 16).              

                                    The Invention                                     
               The invention is directed to a method and apparatus for                
          providing supplementary navigation data to a navigation system              
          installed in a vehicle from one or more local stations and for              
          selectively displaying the received supplementary navigation data           
          on a display.                                                               
               Independent claims 1, 7 and 16 are representative of the               
          claims rejected over prior art and are reproduced below:                    

                    1.  A navigation system comprising:                               
                         a mobile vehicular navigation device installed               
          within a vehicle, the navigation device having means for storing            
          primary navigation data, a display, and means for transmitting              
          stored primary navigation data to the display;                              
                         means for supplying supplementary navigation data            
          to the navigation device comprising means for receiving the                 
          supplementary navigation data from a communications link at a               
          local vehicle station and, means for transmitting received                  
          supplemental navigation data to the navigation device; and                  
                         a controller for selectively displaying the                  
          received supplemental navigation data on the display.                       



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