Appeal No. 2002-1475 Page 12
Application No. 09/370,935
recent vehicle sales prices for a specific auction or geographic
region. If more detail about a vehicle is needed, the Equipment
Detail routine (figure 4c) is used (col. 8, lines 24-26 and 40-
42). The Electronic Auction enables the user to preview sale
inventory associated with a specific auction, etc. After the
user selects a sale date, from the Electronic Sale Schedule menu,
the “sale catalog” associated with the sale will be displayed
(col. 8, lines 54-66). Prior to the actual sale date, the user
receives, either by download or by diskette, the sale information
and the PIN number previously assigned. Upon importing this
information into the PC, the user can review the sale inventory
prior to bidding. The registration screen will prompt the user
to load the sale disk (col. 9, lines 12-19).
To begin the bidding process, the user clicks on the
Activate Bidding Command at the Electronic Auction menu, and
enters the PIN number. The bid screen will appear when the
auction begins.
From the disclosure of Giovannoli, we find that Giovannoli
teaches away from having a central database because of the
problems associated therewith, in favor of a routing service
controlled by class description filters. Because Berent utilizes
databases residing on an SLQ server, we find that an artisan
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