Appeal No. 1997-4463
Application 07/988,712
means at said common source for addressably storing
at least one site-specific message for each of said
sites;
a plurality of output devices, at least selected
ones of said sites having a said output device located
thereat;
an input device located at each site, there being at
least one input device corresponding to each output
device;
means responsive to the operation of the input
device for one of said sites for initiating the reading
out of a message to be provided at the site from the
means for addressably storing, the reading out of a
message for each site for which the corresponding input
device has been operated being initiated when the
corresponding input device is operated and proceeding
concurrently for all sites at a rate for each site which
depends on an information utilization rate for the site;
and
means for transmitting each readout message to the
output device associated with the corresponding operated
input device;
the output device outputting the selected message in
response to receipt of the readout message.
The Examiner relies on the following prior art:
Revesz et al. (Revesz) 4,888,709 December 19,
1989
Humble 4,964,053 October 16,
1990
Pfeiffer et al. (Pfeiffer) 5,198,644 March 30,
1993
(filed April 16,
1992)
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