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          Appeal No. 2002-0012                                                        
          Application 09/545,174                                                      


               By the use of the index information, which may be encrypted            
          or un-encrypted, the data stored on the storage medium 100 in               
          Figures 1 and 2 of Shear is read by the host computer 200 in its            
          encrypted form.  Then it is sent to the decoder/biller 300 from             
          which it is decoded and sent back to the host computer 200.  This           
          is shown generally in Figures 1-4 and discussed at column 4, line           
          66 through column 5, line 17; column 11, lines 24-38; column 14,            
          lines 3-11; column 14, line 40 through column 15, line 2; column            
          16, lines 14-68; and column 20, lines 8-10.  The discussion of              
          the alternate embodiment in Figure 5 begins at column 20, line              
          33.                                                                         
               We are therefore persuaded by appellant's reasoning set                
          forth at pages 3-6 of the Request for Rehearing.  Although we               
          remain of the view that the decrypted data sent from the                    
          decoder/biller 300 back to the host computer 200 would implicitly           
          include creator contact data, the requirements of the independent           
          claims on appeal require more.  The claimed first memory recites            
          a correspondence between the creator identifiers and creator                
          contact data.  The examiner's correlation of the storage medium             
          100 as containing the creator identifier data that must be                  
          decrypted by the second computer 300 in the manner generally set            
          forth by the claims on appeal in the form of reading a watermark            

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