Appeal No. 1997-3822
Application No. 08/406,668
lines 17-21.) Nagata does not explain how the transmitting
and receiving apparatus 3 determines that a message is being
or has been transmitted or received.
The information stored in memory 22 of card 1 for
transmission to card 1' includes: (a) the calling party's
"registered number," which may be his telephone number (col.
7, lines 65-67); (b) the telephone number of the other party
(col. 8, line 11); and (c) the message (col. 8, line 14). The
information can be transmitted in digital form (Fig. 3; col.
6, lines 17-21) or analog form (Fig. 5; col. 6, lines 21-30).
In order to transmit the message previously recorded on
card 1, the operator inserts the card into slot 31 of the
transmitting telephone device, which in a first embodiment
transmits the message from memory 22 of the card to memory 41
(Fig. 4) in exchanger 4, where it is held until the intended
recipient inserts his card 1' into slot 31 of the receiving
telephone device, at which time the message is forwarded from
memory 41 in exchanger 4 to the memory 22 of card 1' (col. 7,
lines 4-16 and 22-31). Nagata also describes a second
embodiment, on which the examiner relies, wherein "[i]nstead
of the exchanger 4, a telephone 3 or 3' of the one's own
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