Appeal No. 2002-2174
Application No. 09/263,166 Page 19
We turn next to claim 23. Claim 23 requires that the
incentive existence message includes interaction means for the
consumer to interact with the incentive, and that the displaying
of the second set of parameters is in response to the consumer
interacting with the interaction means. Appellants assert
(brief, page 24) that the examiner has not shown how Johnson has
this feature. From our review of Johnson, we find that the end
user's selection of one of the bids or incentives offered can be
considered to be interacting with the incentive. However, we
find that the parameters are displayed to the user for the user
to select a bid or incentive, and that Johnson does not disclose
that the second set of parameters is displayed to the user in
response to the consumer interacting with the interacting means.
Accordingly, the rejection of claim 23, and claim 27, dependent
therefrom, is reversed.
We turn next to claim 28. The claim requires that at least
one parameter of the displayed second set of parameters depends
on one or more characteristics of the consumer. Appellants
assert (brief, page 26) the same arguments that were presented
for claims 12 and 14. From the disclosure of Johnson (col. 5,
lines 30-34) we find that:
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