Appeal No. 2003-0494
Application No. 09/176,012
brief command associated with the request for information. The query profile is
communicated and stored at the information provider. A user can then contact the
information provider via a mobile phone and use the brief command to access the
information requested. This allows the user to make a request and obtain information,
without having to use the information provider’s predetermined complex commands
(see page 3 of appellants’ specification)
Claims 1 and 15 are representative of the invention
1. A method for defining and later retrieving user-specified information by means
of a mobile telephone, comprising the following steps:
a) using a user data processing system to prepare at least one query profile
where each query profile has at least one information requirement and an
associated brief command and where each brief command can be specified
using the keypad of a mobile telephone;
b) sending the query profile using the user data-processing system to an
information supplier;
c) sending an information call using a mobile telephone to the information
supplier containing at least one of the brief commands;
d) comparing the brief command sent in accordance with step c) with the brief
commands of the query profiles prepared and sent in accordance with steps a
and b);
e) putting together the information of the information requirements contained in
the associated query profile in the event of agreement in accordance with step
d);
f) sending the collected information to the mobile telephone; and
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