Appeal No. 96-3540
Application 07/815,654
This is a decision on appeal from the final rejection of
claims 1 through 12, all of the claims pending in the present
application.
The invention relates to an automated payment method and
system within a Computer Integrated Manufacturing (CIM)
system. Referring to page 9 line 15 et seq. of the
specification and figure 2B, a purchase order is created at
82, and released to a supplier at 84. A purchase order
planned receipt list is then generated at 86. After an
advanced ship notice is received from the supplier at 88
(listing each item), a comparison/validation is made at 90,
comparing the items listed on the advanced ship notice to
those items listed on the planned receipt list. If the items
on each list match at 92(figure 2C), an automatic
authorization for payment is issued at 94 to a bank at 96.
All of these processes are accomplished electronically and
transmitted over a communications network using an Electronic
Data Interchange (EDN).
A representative independent claim 1 is reproduced as
follows:
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