Appeal No. 2002-0419
Application No. 08/457,732
centralized computer for processing (on-line interactive concurrent) business
transactions between a plurality of different types of independent users which includes
freight service providers (Shavit abstract and col. 2) and shopping of closing details for
an urgent shipment that has to be coordinated with an agent, a source, and a shipping
company (Shavit at col. 6), we do not find a teaching or suggestion of a central
computer that contains a “means for receiving a parcel pickup request” or an intelligent
terminal that transmits the shipping record to this parcel pickup request receiving
means. Shavit at col. 7 states that a “user may use the system 50 resources for its
processing capability or it may use the system simply as a conduit to translate the
transactions and communicate them to remote computing facilities.” Therefore, Shavit
does not teach or suggest these claim limitations.
Similarly, Dlugos does not teach or suggest these claim limitations. The
examiner maintains (answer at page 5) that a means for receiving a parcel pickup
request were well known as evidenced by Dlugos. While Dlugos teaches that when an
order is packed and prepared for shipment, the information is read from the integrated
circuit package label on the parcel and other information for shipping may be input to
the terminal. This information is then uploaded to a host computer for a central record.
Throughout the remainder of Dlugos, various options for the use of the integrated circuit
package label are discussed along with the use of the integrated circuit package label
for a plurality of parcels and manifesting these parcels and processing thereof. Yet we
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