Appeal No. 1997-2678
Application No. 08/347,270
inquiries to a user and to respond to answers to those
inquiries by the user. Therefore, one can broadly interpret
Lockwood as disclosing the claimed “inquiring sequences of
data.” Since Lockwood presents options to a user and responds
to various selections, Lockwood also may be said to have a
“means for outputting said informing and inquiring sequences
on said video screen,” as claimed. Lockwood also appears to
disclose many of the other claimed features.
However, independent claim 1 also requires a “means for
controlling” the storing means, the outputting means and the
transmitting means. Lockwood clearly has a “means for
controlling.” But claim 1 requires that the means for
controlling includes “means for fetching additional inquiring
sequences in response to a plurality of said data entered
through said means for entering and in response to information
received from said central processor.” While Lockwood may
fetch additional inquiring sequences (as in presenting
additional questions or options to a user) in response to a
user input, we find no suggestion in Lockwood of fetching the
additional inquiring sequences in response to both the user
entry of data and to information received from the central
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