Appeal No. 2000-1323
Application No. 08/923,474
Appellant also takes issue with the examiner’s reliance on Figure 7 of Bayless for
the teaching of the claimed collecting step. Appellant states that his review of Figure 7
“does not indicate that [Bayless] collects information from a communication management
server and displays the information by a graphical object” [principal brief-page 7].
With regard to independent claim 6, appellant makes the same arguments as with
regard to claim 1, supra and, additionally makes the argument that the examiner has
ignored “step (c) which provides ‘sending the inputted information to the communication
management database and storing the sent information in the communication
management database’” [principal brief-page 10].
Similarly, with regard to independent claim 10, appellant makes the same
arguments as with regard to claim 1, supra and, additionally argues that the examiner has
ignored “steps (c) and (d) which provides respectively, ‘creating an entry in the table in the
database; and sending said inputted information to the table in the communication
management server and storing the said information in the communication management
database’” [principal brief-page 11].
We do not agree with appellant regarding the lack of motivation for combining the
Dilts and Bayless references. Clearly, the references are both in the computerized
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