Appeal No. 95-4023
Application 08/062,033
means for passing edge detection information between
the plurality of sensors, said edge detection
informa-tion comprising a unique document identifier
and a representation of a position of a transport
mechanism associated with said transport path.
as recited in Appellant's claim 17. Upon reviewing the above
claim language, we note that the claim is directed to tracking
a document. Furthermore, the claim language requires the edge
detection information to comprise a unique document
identifier. Therefore, we find that Appellant's claim 17
requires an identi-fier that is unique for each document.
In column 2, lines 51-64, Cloud teaches that Figure 1
teaches a mail sorting machine having a path 10 along which
envelopes that are to be sorted are serially transported.
Cloud further teaches that the envelopes are fed one at a time
between a drive roller 12 and an opposing pinch roller 14
which feed the envelopes onto a conveyor belt 16. In column
2, line 54, through column 3, line 13, Cloud teaches that at
the downstream end of the conveyor belt 16, a plurality of
diverter mechanisms 24, 26 and 28 are positioned in series to
allow the envelopes to divert off into a sort bin.
In column 3, lines 20-42, Cloud teaches that reader 36 is
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