Appeal No. 1998-2705
Application No. 08/867-773
100 request is to say "call home." System 100, in response
thereto, associates the spoken identified call home with the
subscriber's home telephone and then places the outgoing
telephone call thereto to switch 10 and network 200. System
100 then causes switch 10 to interconnect the outgoing call
with the subscriber's incoming call. In col. 5, lines 14-46,
Hou teaches that system 100 includes SIU 21, which is a number
of digital signal processors which operate to perform a number
of different voice processing functions including speech
recognition. Therefore, we find that Hou teaches that the
first call prompted by the caller is to the speech recognition
system, which is SIU 21, within voice directed communications
system 100. Therefore, Hou does not teach prompting the call
to initiate a first call to the automated system, initiating a
second call in the network to a facility for performing speech
recognition, and bridging first and second calls as recited in
Appellant's claim 1.
We are not inclined to dispense with proof by evidence
when the proposition at issue is not supported by a teaching
in a prior art reference or shown to be common knowledge of
unquestionable demonstration. Our reviewing court requires
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