Appeal No. 96-3286
Application 08/197,594
type set forth in the vehicle-carried road storage device clause
of claim 1 on appeal.
Notwithstanding these considerations, we recognize there is
no explicit teaching of transferring this toll data in the
disclosure of Siegle. More significantly, however, we find no
teaching or suggestion in Siegle and/or any of the other
references relied upon for an on board vehicle-carried computer
unit to compute a road toll based upon sectionalized and
corresponding toll information as set forth in the vehicle-
carried computer unit clause of independent claim 1 on appeal.
In both Cardullo and Siegle, the only two references relating to
tolls relied upon by the examiner, both references receive from a
fixed station a toll amount demanded, which may be withdrawn from
the toll card storing a fixed amount of toll charges as in Siegle
and the toll dollar amount that may be withdrawn from the memory
in Cardullo. Siegle’s vehicle unit’s control is a microcomputer,
but specific road tolls are computed in Cardullo and Siegle only
externally of the on board vehicle unit. Cardullo has no means
for determining vehicle position although Siegle’s vehicle unit
does. In any event, there is no teaching or suggestion that on
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