Appeal No. 1998-2870
Application 08/429,954
provides control signals to dial a calling string (block 116),
dial the amenity service code number (block 132) responsive to
the "service select signal," and dial the credit card information
(block 136) in response to the "information signal."
Appellants argue that the differences between Biggs and the
subject matter of claims 1, 20, 21, and 23 are: (1) the amenities
services device is integral with the telephone (response device)
in Biggs and is not externally connected between the telephone
and an external apparatus (i.e., not externally connected in
series); (2) Biggs and Snyder do not suggest permitting an
externally connected response device to transmit signals onto a
telephone line while the device processing unit is enabled; and
(3) the programming data in Biggs is received from program input
72 and is not received and stored by the CPU.
(1)
Snyder discloses a telephone accessory communications
device 10, such as a credit card reader, externally connected
between a telephone 18 and an external apparatus (not shown)
through standard telephone cable 15. This express teaching of an
add-on device with amenities selection switches and card reader
would have suggested to one of ordinary skill in the art making
the amenities service device portion of Biggs as a separate
external device, connected between a standard telephone and the
external apparatus. Snyder also discloses that a number of
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