Appeal No. 2002-1028
Application No. 09/208,430
The examiner asserts (Answer, page 5) that "it would have
been obvious ... to include the mid-game entry feature of Logg in
the system of Tashiro et al to further improve upon the prior art
gaming system of Logg ... to enhance the players' gaming
experience." We agree that Logg teaches (column 1, lines 38-40)
that "[i]t is useful in a multi-player video game to allow any
player to enter the game or leave at any time," and that "[t]his
makes the game more social." However, Logg accomplishes mid-game
entry with a single game space on a single machine. Logg
provides no guidance as to how one would add a character to a
game played on plural machines as in Tashiro's system, and thus
provides no suggestion to create reconstruction data of the game
space, transfer it, and reconstruct the game space on an
additional machine.
The examiner states (Answer, pages 5-6) that "reconstruction
information is merely gaming data that updates all the gaming
machines in the multi-player game with the inclusion data of a
new player so that all the gaming machines will have the same
game data and be able to play on an even accord." The examiner
continues
Thus, the gaming system of Tashiro et al is capable of
transferring the reconstruction data, of the combined
systems of Tashiro et al and Logg, through the data
transmission lines shown in Fig. 2 of Tashiro et al.
When combining the mid-entry game feature of Logg in
the Tashiro et al invention, the gaming data sent to
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