Appeal No. 1997-3968
Application No. 08/318,914
overcoming the indefiniteness rejection of claims 8 through
13.
The disclosed invention relates to a method and apparatus
for accepting a plurality of successive contributions via a
portable, hand-held contributions management terminal.
Claim 1 is illustrative of the claimed invention, and it
reads as follows:
1. A method of simplifying and inducing the giving of
monetary contributions by contributors, receiving and
immediately recording thereof upon receipt comprising,
providing the contributors making monetary contributions
with a portable, hand-held terminal having a routine for
accepting a plurality of successive contributions having
voluntary numerical amount inputs for making of record
informationof respective contributions, said terminal having
its own source of electric power and a plurality of entry keys
manually operable for entering anumerical amount of the
monetary contribution given, a reader on said terminal for
reading a card record having indicia thereon identifying the
contributor making the monetary contribution, the terminal
having means for visual display of the monetary amount entered
by manual operation of entry keys, and the terminal having
means for recording the numerical amount of the contribution
including means for storing numerical information of the
monetary amount given correlated to theindicia read on said
card record of the corresponding contributor, and said
correlated amount and indicia read by said reader for eventual
off-loading thereof by off-loading means.
The references relied on by the examiner are:
Teicher 5,206,488 Apr. 27,
1993
Kumar 5,294,782 Mar. 15,
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