Appeal No. 1997-2700 Application 08/307,249 the form of a system prompt which asks the caller to input personal information such as social security or account numbers (Hunt, column 7, line 1). The call in question will not be completed until the caller satisfies this risk factor condition by providing the correct personal information. For all of the above reasons, the Examiner’s 35 U.S.C. § 102(e) rejection of independent claims 1, 11, and 19 is sustained. Turning to a consideration of dependent claims 2, 10 and 12, separately argued by Appellant, we sustain the 35 U.S.C. § 102(e) rejection of these claims as well. Dependent claims 2 and 12 are directed to the determination made after a matching process is performed as whether a call is to be completed. In our view, the passages from Hunt discussed supra relating to the introduction of the personal information system prompt clearly meet such requirement. It is further our opinion that the risk factors in Hunt are clearly resident in an “audio response unit” as broadly recited in dependent claim 10. Dependent claims 3, 8, 9, 13, 18, 20, and 24 have not been argued separately and, accordingly, fall with their base 8Page: Previous 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 NextLast modified: November 3, 2007