Ex Parte ZENNER et al - Page 9



          Appeal No. 2003-0133                                                        
          Application 08/940,702                                                      

               The examiner acknowledges that Hogan does not disclose                 
          accessing retained criteria entered by the user, wherein said               
          criteria is at least one of sorting, highlighting, filtering and            
          aliasing criteria for personalizing the display of the detailed             
          billing records contained within at least one bill, acting upon             
          said retained criteria, and displaying formatted field                      
          information in accordance with the acted upon retained criteria.            
          See page 7 of the examiner’s answer.  Upon our review of Reilly,            
          we find that Reilly is directed to an information and advertising           
          distribution system.  An information server stores and updates a            
          database of information items and advertisements.  See column 2,            
          lines 60 through 65.  The information items and advertisements              
          are each categorized so that each has an associated information             
          category.  Workstations remotely located from the information               
          server each include a display device, a communication interface             
          for receiving at least a subset of information items and                    
          advertisements in the information server’s database, and local              
          memory for storing the information items and advertisements                 
          received from the information server.  See column 2, line 65,               
          through column 3, line 5.  We agree with the examiner that Reilly           
          does teach a Category Profiler Dialog in column 9, lines 35                 
          through 60.  However, we fail to find that Reilly teaches a                 
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