Appeal No. 2000-1722 Application No. 08/802,578 compiling a subscriber profile database comprising at least one profile for at least one subscriber, wherein said at least one profile comprises at least information regarding a type of musical event preferred by said at least one subscriber; matching musical events listed in said musical event database with a subscriber profile from said subscriber profile database; and transmitting radio signals carrying musical event information which matches a subscriber profile to that subscriber's pager with said paging system. The prior art references of record relied upon by the examiner in rejecting the appealed claims are: Champion, III et al. (Champion) 4,812,843 Mar. 14, 1989 Wang et al. (Wang) 5,649,289 Jul. 15, 1997 (filed Jul. 10, 1995) Claims 5 through 8 and 13 through 18 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 103 as being unpatentable over Wang. Claims 5 through 12 and 14 through 17 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 103 as being unpatentable over Champion. Reference is made to the Examiner's Answer (Paper No. 15, mailed September 28, 1999) for the examiner's complete reasoning in support of the rejections, and to appellants' Brief (Paper No. 14, filed January 6, 1999) and Reply Brief (Paper No. 16, filed November 12, 1999) for appellants' arguments thereagainst.Page: Previous 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 NextLast modified: November 3, 2007