Appeal No. 2002-1785
Application No. 09/239,338 Page 2
1. A method for locating store employees, comprising the
steps of:
receiving a set of unique signature transmissions by a set
of receivers on the store, each transmission emanating from a
respective transmitter worn by a store employee;
associating each unique signature with employee biographical
information, including an expertise of an employee;
using the transmissions to locate employees in the store;
and
responsive to a user request for employees having a given
expertise, displaying a store map on an informational kiosk
display wherein a representation of the location of the employees
having the given expertise is shown therein.
The prior art references of record relied upon by the
examiner in rejecting the appealed claims are:
Christ 5,977,913 Nov. 2, 1999
(filed: Feb. 5, 1998)
Claims 1-19 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 103(a) as being
unpatentable over Christ. Rather than reiterate the conflicting
viewpoints advanced by the examiner and appellants regarding the
above-noted rejection, we make reference to the examiner's answer
(Paper No. 12, mailed January 23, 2002) for the examiner's
complete reasoning in support of the rejection, and to
appellants' brief (Paper No. 11, filed November 19, 2001) for
appellants' arguments thereagainst. Only those arguments
actually made by appellants have been considered in this
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