Appeal No. 1998-2372 Page 2
Application No. 08/639,815
aboard trains, buses, and airplanes that do not display public
clocks.
The appellant discloses techniques for automatically
updating a time piece when the boundary of a time zone is
crossed. More specifically, stored data defining time zone
boundaries are combined with location data from a Global
Positioning Satellite receiver to decide when a time zone
boundary is crossed. Alternatively, current time data are
transmitted to a timepiece from transmitters at locations
frequented by travelers, e.g., railroad stations, bus
terminals, and airports.
Claim 4, which is representative for our purposes,
follows:
4. A timepiece which can be remotely updated,
comprising:
a. a clock, and
b. a receiver configured to receive externally
supplied update information over a communications
link for updating said clock in which said update
information is provided from a vehicle.
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