Appeal No. 96-0463
Application 08/069,161
main elements in a broad “association” to the extent recited in
the providing clause of representative claim 5 on appeal.
At least, within Person, the act of the user selecting
various radiuses as discussed beginning at column 7, line 16
corresponds to the broad selecting clause of representative claim
5 on appeal. The user, for example, may selectively vary the
radius of the current or designated location or the path itself
(see also Figure 4) which allows the user to select various
“geographic centers” from the noted places of interest database
as defined earlier within a predetermined distance of the travel
route. The final step of generating a list of places at the end
of representative claim 5 on appeal as well as the display aspect
thereof in its dependent claim 7, is met by the final display to
the user in Person. Note, for example, column 14, lines 3
through 10 and 59 through 66.
Representative claim 5 on appeal requires that the places of
interest database within it have “places of interest data
associating each place of interest with one of the geographic
centers.” The same argument made in the original brief at the
bottom of page 9, as well as repeated in the most recent
supplemental reply brief, that in Person “each place of interest
is not associated with a separate geographic location, but rather
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