Appeal No. 2002-1380
Application No. 08/786,270 Page 2
1. A system for identifying a local signal source supplying
a program signal to a display of a monitored receiver, wherein
the local signal source and the monitored receiver are located in
a household, and wherein the system comprises:
a program signature extracter arranged to extract a
reference program signature representative of an output of the
monitored receiver and to extract a source program signature
representative of the program signal supplied by the local signal
source, wherein the program signature extracter is located in the
household; and,
a signal source identifier arranged to identify either one
of the local signal source and the monitored receiver as a local
source of the program signal supplied to the display in response
to the reference program signature and the source program
signature.
The prior art references of record relied upon by the
examiner in rejecting the appealed claims are:
Fisher et al. (Fisher) 5,294,977 March 15, 1994
Mischler 5,608,445 March 4, 1997
Thomas (PCT) WO 95/12278 May 4, 1995
Claims 1-13, 15-27, 49-53, 59-61, and 66-711 stand rejected
under 35 U.S.C. § 102(b) as being anticipated by Thomas.
Claims 14, 28, 75, and 76 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C.
§ 103(a) as being unpatentable over Thomas.
1 The examiner omits claims 72 and 73 in the statement of the rejection,
but specifically refers to claims 72 and 73 in the body of the rejection
(final rejection, page 3). Accordingly, we consider claims 72 and 73 to be
included in this rejection.
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