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).Page: Previous 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 NextLast modified: November 3, 2007