Appeal No. 1998-1393 Page 12
Application No. 08/498,306
originating subscriber's number, the termination subscriber
can know the originating party from the audible indication
before answering the call.” (Appeal Br. at 4.) The appellant
further admits, “Fujioka employs a caller-ID device for use in
identifying a caller for audibly announcing that caller via a
speaker ....” (Id.) Specifically, the reference provides a
voice message containing “ID information such as the
originating subscriber’s name.” Col. 4, ll. 38-39.
Fujioka teaches that the caller-ID feature generally “can
be used to eliminate the necessity of answering unwanted
harassing calls or frequent sales calls ....” Col. 6, ll. 7-
9. The reference’s use of the voice message to provide
caller-ID information specifically, enables a user to identify
a caller when the user is away from his telephone. Col. 1,
ll. 25-29.
The combined teachings of Hasegawa-Patsiokas and Fujioka
would have suggested providing Fujioka’s caller-ID voice
message to Hasegawa’s handset. The motivation to do so would
have been to permit a called subscriber to decide whether to
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