Appeal No. 2002-2077
Application No. 09/273,363
an emulator module as claimed because the central processor in
Humble operates the checkout terminal in manner appropriate for
whichever mode is selected [reply brief, pages 2-3].
We will not sustain the examiner’s rejection of claims 1-
13 for essentially the reasons argued by appellant in the briefs.
Specifically, we agree with appellant that there is no teaching
of an emulator module in Humble as recited in claim 1. The
examiner has provided no support for his position that an
emulator module as recited in claim 1 is inherent in the system
of Humble. Humble teaches that the central processor can be
programmed to switch the checkout terminal 24 between store
personnel and customer operation modes [column 4, lines 63-65].
Thus, the central processor in Humble knows when the checkout
terminal is in the store personnel mode and when it is in the
customer operation mode. As a result, the central processor
adjusts its control operations based on the selected mode. As
argued by appellant, since the central processor of Humble knows
which mode the checkout terminal is in, there is no need to
emulate the native vendor software application in a network of
cashier-operated checkout terminals as claimed. The claimed
emulator module must operate independent of the self-checkout
core application and essentially hides the fact that the terminal
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