Appeal No. 2003-0097
Application 09/360,969
drawing begins, emergency phone numbers and current
status of the jackpot for the game. Five minutes
before the game starts, card purchases are cut off and
the final total of sales are communicated to the
central site PC 1, from the participation site PC 5.
Any totals received are counted in the jackpot draw.
A totally automated bingo machine 16 is used at
the central [PC 1] to randomly select the bingo balls
on which the bingo numbers are inscribed. Each bingo
ball is randomly selected by the bingo ball selection
machine 16 and the drawing of each ball is captured on
video at the central site PC 1 by a video system 18 and
transmitted through the WAN 3 to each participation
site PC 5. . . . The picture at the participation site
PC 1 is redrawn at each of the site computers 5 and
projected as a video picture on a screen 12 at the
participation site.
. . .
When a bingo is announced by a player in any
participation site, the location with the player
achieving a bingo has the option to press a bingo
virtual button on the screen of the site computer 5
connected to the WAN 3 at the site, or directly calling
on a land line to the central site PC 1. Verification
of the bingo is done at the central site while the game
is stopped. Verification of the bingo is done by
calling the central control by a land line and
communicating the serial number of the bingo card, or
by entering the serial number of the card in the
central site computer 1 on the WAN 3 at the central
site [column 3, line 25, through column 4, line 4].
Notwithstanding the examiner’s finding to the contrary,
Soltesz does not meet the limitation in independent claim 1
requiring the selected sub-set to be displayed on the display
means of each player’s respective gaming machine, the
corresponding limitation in independent claim 14 requiring a
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