Appeal No. 1996-3281
Application 07/895,467
automatically determining whether transmission is
impossible based on whether the second local information
transmission time at the sending party's location is earlier
than the local time there at which manual designating occurs
taking into account the calculated time zone differential; and
informing the sending party's terminal that transmission
is impossible when transmission is determined to be impossible
in
the determining step.
The references relied on by the Examiner are as follows:
Takenouchi et al. (Takenouchi) 4,506,111 Mar. 19, 1985
Sekiya et al. (Sekiya)2 JP 58-196754 Nov. 16, 1983
Claims 1 through 10, 16 through 25 and 31 through 33
stand rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 103 as being unpatentable
over Sekiya in view of Takenouchi.
Rather than repeat the arguments of Appellant or the
Examiner, we make reference to the brief, reply brief and the
answer for the details thereof.
2The translation in the application file is being used and references
are thereto. Translated by the Diplomatic Language Services, Inc. dated April
1994.
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