Appeal No. 2000-1520
Application No. 08/768,715 Page 2
automatically registering a detected caller ID in a memory of a
telephone system according to a last in first out rule. An
understanding of the invention can be derived from a reading of
exemplary claim 1, which is reproduced as follows:
1. A dialing method for a telephone system using a caller
identification, comprising steps of:
receiving, in response to an incoming call, a telephone
number of a party calling said telephone system as a caller
identification from said incoming call interposed between ring
signals;
automatically registering said caller identification, while
said ring signals indicative of said incoming call are being
received, in a memory of said telephone system according to a
last in first out rule;
after said ring signals are terminated, and said caller
identification is registered in said memory, searching said
memory for said caller identification in response to input of a
search key from an operational panel of said telephone system;
and then
after said caller identification is searched, automatically
dialing said telephone number corresponding to said caller
identification in response to input of a start key from said
operational panel of said telephone system.
The prior art references of record relied upon by the
examiner in rejecting the appealed claims are:
Figa et al. (Figa) 4,924,496 May 8, 1990
Takahata 5,303,301 Apr. 12, 1994
Hirai 5,446,785 Aug. 29, 1995
Claims 1 and 8 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 103(a) as
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