Appeal No. 2000-1520
Application No. 08/768,715 Page 10
directory the number and the party is displayed. If there is no
match, the number still appears, but the name line 32 will
display "** Call in progress **," indicating that there was no
corresponding number found in the user's directory (col. 4, lines
26-30). Display updates are made by the user (col. 6, lines 4-
6). An add routine permits a new directory entry to be entered
(col. 9, lines 29-32). Any phone number already in the log can
be automatically transferred from the log to the directory by
adding the new name and pressing add key 35. The user may
accomplish this function at any time (col. 9, lines 48-57).
We find from these teachings of Figa that if a call arrives
and the user is notified that the caller ID is not in the user's
directory, the user can enter the information into the user's
directory using the add routine. In view of the teaching of
Hirai of storing all of the incoming calls in a log (memory
circuit 18), and Figa's teaching of providing a user's directory
in addition to the call log, we find that an artisan would have
considered it obvious to provide Hirai with the user directory of
Figa, in order to allow the user of Hirai to have a user defined
directory, and to search for a caller according to the caller's
name or number, as taught by Figa (col. 1, lines 59-61, and col.
3, lines 5 and 6). This would allow the user of Hirai to search
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