Appeal No. 1997-4463
Application 07/988,712
Bullock does not disclose "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]" (emphasis added). The Examiner states that Bullock
stores the message at the common site 16 and at each remote
site 18 (SEA4). However, this does not address the claim
limitation which requires the message to be read out from the
common source, not just stored at the common source. It is
clear that Bullock reads out the message from the local memory
at the user unit, not from a common source at computer 16.
Bullock further does not disclose "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."
The Examiner realizes that outputting the messages from
the central processor at a rate that corresponds to the
utilization rate is not performed because the site-specific
messages are stored at the site (EA10). The Examiner states
(EA10-11):
However, if the related product information were
extensive (audio data can often require excessive
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