Appeal No. 2000-0265
Application No. 08/927,903
BACKGROUND
Appellants' invention relates to a paging receiver that displays visual symbols.
An understanding of the invention can be derived from a reading of exemplary claim 1,
which is reproduced below.
1. A handheld paging receiver comprising receiving means for
receiving messages and detecting symbol associated codes contained in
the messages, selection means for selecting symbols corresponding to
the possible symbol associated codes in the messages from a
predetermined set of at least three visual symbols and for conveying said
message using different selections of said symbols, and reproduction
means for visually reproducing as pictograms a plurality of the selected
symbols corresponding to symbol associated codes in a received
message, wherein the reproduction means are arranged to visually
reproduce the symbols of the set of at least three visual symbols as
respective different pictograms in predesignated positions such that each
different pictogram has its own exclusive predesignated position and the
pictograms are situated relative to one another so as to form a
two-dimensional scene.
The prior art references of record relied upon by the examiner in rejecting the
appealed claims are:
Oshikawa 5,273,475 Dec. 28, 1993
Reed et al. (Reed) WO-91/03885 Mar. 21, 1991
Claim 1 stands rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 102 as being anticipated by Reed.
Claims 3, 4, 7, and 8 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 102 as anticipated by Reed or in
the alternative under 35 U.S.C. § 103 as being unpatentable over Reed. Claims 5 and
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