Appeal No. 2002-1475 Page 2
Application No. 09/370,935
BACKGROUND
Appellants' invention relates to a vehicular data exchange
system and method. An understanding of the invention can be
derived from a reading of exemplary claim 1, which is reproduced
as follows:
1. A vehicular data exchange system adapted for use to
exchange vehicular data relating to a vehicle, comprising:
a plurality of computer terminals, each of said computer
terminals including an input device for inputting the vehicular
data that includes vehicular characteristics data units and
vehicular financial data units and a display device for visually
displaying the vehicular data inputted into said plurality of
computer terminals, each of said computer terminals operative to
transmit to each other and receive from one another both the
vehicular characteristics data units and the vehicular financial
data units for display on respective display devices; and
a processor in communication with said plurality of computer
terminals for controlling the vehicular data
wherein the vehicular characteristics data units are
inputted at any time into any selected one of said computer
terminals and are transmitted immediately thereafter to remaining
ones of said computer terminals for display on respective ones of
said display devices associated with said remaining ones of said
computer terminals and
wherein the vehicular financial data units are inputted into
at least a responding one of said remaining ones of said computer
terminals in response to the vehicular characteristics data units
displayed on said display device of said at least responding one
of said remaining ones of said computer terminals and are
transmitted to said selected one of said computer terminals for
display on said display device associated with said selected one
of the computer terminals.
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