Appeal No. 1997-4463
Application 07/988,712
message to each station before proceeding to the next station.
Certain conditions are required before the claimed output rate
limitation is necessary, such as the memory at the site having
a capacity less than the full length of the message, which
conditions have not been addressed by the Examiner. The
Examiner has failed to provide evidence that outputting
information at a rate corresponding to the utilization rate
would have been obvious.
In summary, the combination of Revesz and Humble does not
teach or suggest: (1) "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 [at the common source]," and
(2) "the reading out of a message for each site . . .
proceeding concurrently for all sites at a rate for each site
which depends on an information utilization rate for the
site." Therefore, the Examiner has failed to establish a
prima facie case of obviousness. The rejection of claims 1-18
is reversed.
Bullock and Pfeiffer
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