Appeal No. 2002-1755
Application No. 09/173,286
Hibbeler does not provide for the deficiency of Microsoft Office
noted supra.
Accordingly, we will not sustain the rejection of claims 5
and 7 under 35 U.S.C. § 103 over Microsoft Office, Nakatsu and
Hibbeler.
Independent claims 10 and 13 are each rejected under
35 U.S.C. § 103 as obvious over Nakatsu, alone.
The examiner’s position is that Nakatsu shows a processor 62
and a computer readable memory 66 connected to the voice card
processor 62. The examiner urges that Nakatsu teaches a “prompts
and greetings” module (elements 62 and 80) within a voice card
processor and compares this teaching to the claimed “a greeting
module within said computer readable memory.” The claimed speech
recognition processor is seen by the examiner in Nakatsu as item
60 in Figure 2. The examiner further contends that Nakatsu
suggests a publicly accessible data network by its teaching of a
public switched telephone network (PSTN), which transmits data,
and is connected to the processor. The examiner says the
suggestion of a publicly accessible data network provides the
advantage of a greater number of users accessing Nakatsu’s
greeting message service (Figure 1, item 10), and compares this
to the claimed “an interface to a publicly accessible data
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