Appeal No. 2001-1018
Application 09/211,688
terminal having a terminal memory device electrically coupled
to a processing unit therein, with said terminal memory device
having stored therein a plurality of instructions which, when
executed by the processing unit, causes the processing unit of
the self-service terminal to perform certain functions, among
which is causing the processing unit to “operate said self-
service checkout terminal so as to allow said customer to
enter said number of items into said self-service checkout
terminal in response to generation of said audit-required
control signal.”
Looking to the examiner's rejection of claims 1, 2, 7, 8,
13 through 15, 18 and 19 under 35 U.S.C. § 102(b) as being
anticipated by GB ‘575, we note that the examiner has asserted
that this reference discloses a system for and method of
operating a self-service store having hand-held scanners (10)
for storing a number of scanned items scanned by the customer,
a self-service checkout terminal, a controller (16) for
receiving memory from the scanners and also determining and
generating a signal indicating whether or not the customer’s
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