Appeal No. 2003-1051
Application No. 09/247,134
forwarded by Manduley) to be automatically identified before the
bill is scanned into the database.
Appellants argue that Manduley divides paper mail into
“fast” mail and “slow” mail. It is only the “fast” mail which is
scanned and sent electronically as a graphic file. The “slow”
mail (e.g., magazines) is still hand-delivered, “processed in the
traditional way” (column 2, line 14). Accordingly, while
Manduley has, as an input, paper mail and, as an output,
electronic and paper mail, the instant claimed invention performs
in an opposite manner, with both paper and electronic mail as
inputs and only electronic mail as an output. This is not
entirely true since Figure 1 of Manduley does depict both paper
mail and electronic mail as being input to Manduley’s system.
In any event, because Manduley does not extract data from
the document and store that data in electronic form, as claimed,
but only sends the paper mail electronically as a graphic file,
it cannot be said to store data into a database wherein that data
is obtained from bills in paper format and bills in electronic
format and it cannot be said to scan the paper bill “to enter
specific data contained in the paper bill.”
Since Kolling does not deal with paper mail/bills at all, it
is of no help in providing the deficiency of Manduley. With
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