Appeal No. 97-2403
Application No. 08/337,806
rejected base claim, but would be allowable if rewritten in
independent form including all of the limitations of the base
claim and any intervening claims.
The disclosed invention relates to a method of passively
reproducing an audio message on an audio system in a vehicle
upon the closure of an ignition switch.
Claim 1 is the only independent claim on appeal, and it
reads as follows:
1. A method for operating a vehicle message system
including a vehicle audio system having record, store and
replay audio function modes, the method comprising:
recording an audio message by reproducing a vocally
intoned output as a message signal in the record functional
mode of said vehicle message system;
storing said message signal;
retrieving said message signal in response to a first
predetermined actuator;
reproducing said audio message on said vehicle audio
system from said retrieved message signal;
wherein said actuator comprises an ignition switch and
said retrieving step comprises closing said ignition switch;
and
wherein said reproducing step comprises passively
reproducing said audio message.
The references relied on by the examiner are:
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