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               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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