Appeal No. 1999-0477 Page 2
Application No. 08/571,236
can be derived from a reading of exemplary claim 13, which is
reproduced as follows:
13. An interactive television receiver console
comprising:
a television receiver;
an interface pack linked to said television receiver,
said interface pack including a data transmission means for
transmitting transmitted data to a televised program
distributor which implements transactional applications based
on said transmitted data, a data reception means for receiving
received data from said televised program distributor, and an
image overlay means for overlaying an image corresponding to
said received data on another image displayed on said
television receiver;
a keyboard linked to said interface pack configured to
enter information elements to said interface pack;
a chip card reader linked to said interface pack; and
a chip card which is inserted into said chip card reader
to enable reading of data from said chip card, said chip card
comprising:
a memory configured to hold said chip card data and
a processor configured to determine steps in said
transactional applications based on said chip card data.
The prior art references of record relied upon by the
examiner in rejecting the appealed claims are:
Moreno 4,102,493 Jul. 25, 1978
Ware 4,707,592 Nov. 17, 1987
Biggs 5,333,181 Jul. 26, 1994
Claims 13 and 2-8 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 103 as
being unpatentable over Biggs in view of Moreno.
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