Appeal No. 2001-1480 Page 10
Application No. 09/129,285
3, line 31, to column 5, line 46). With particular regard to
claim 7, Ayanoglu contemplates using the traffic information
in a driverless vehicle navigation system (column 5, lines 41-
43), which, from our perspective, would involve automatically
routing the individual vehicles based on traffic patterns
determined from the traffic information in the central
database 50.
Claim 3 is rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 103(a) as being
unpatentable over Ayanoglu in view of Marcy, as applied to
claim 1 above, and further in view of the admitted prior art
(AAPA) on page 1 of appellant’s specification.
As explained above, Ayanoglu and Marcy suggest using GPS
traffic information to analyze traffic patterns and
transmitting control signals, based on those traffic patterns,
to traffic control devices such as traffic lights. Further,
as admitted by appellant on page 1 of the specification, it
was known in the art at the time of appellant’s invention to
change speed limits displayed on speed limit signs based on
traffic conditions in order to alleviate traffic congestion on
existing roadways and highways. Thus, it would have been
obvious to one skilled in the art at the time of appellant’s
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