Appeal No. 2002-1696 Page 3
Application No. 08/921,884
second group of subscriber units, the records message comprising a
plurality of records, each record including subscriber-customized
information corresponding to a subscriber unit that will receive the records
message; and
when the subscriber-customized group message has been formed
completely in the subscriber unit of the second group, presenting the
subscriber-customized group message to a user by the subscriber unit,
the subscriber-customized group message formed from the master
message and from at least one of:
one of the plurality of records corresponding to the subscriber unit,
and
local information stored in the subscriber unit.
Claims 1-191 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 103(a) as obvious over U.S.
Patent No. 5,345,227 ("Fascenda") and U.S. Patent No. 5,535,428 ("King").
OPINION
Rather than reiterate the positions of the examiner or the appellant in toto, we
address the point of contention therebetween. The examiner asserts, "King shows a
system where the record information is only given to groups interested in that specific
record information." (Examiner's Answer at 5.) He adds, "[e]liminating traffic on the
system by only sending sports info to individuals interested about that particular team.
1Although the examiner's statement of the rejection, (Examiner's Answer at 4),
omits claim 19, the other portions of his answer evidence that the claim is rejected. (Id.
at 2, 8, 9).
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