Appeal No. 2003-0957 Page 3
Application No. 09/074,074
A further understanding of the invention can be achieved by reading the following
claim.
19. A computer-readable media having instructions for use in
automatically generating a customer billing statement for a plurality of
customers; the instructions performing steps comprising:
creating a customer billing statement template having a message
area;
storing in a database a plurality of billing messages each having an
assigned priority;
defining criteria for determining which of the billing messages are to
be included in a customer billing statement; and
generating the customer billing statement for each of the plurality of
customers by repeating the steps of:
selecting billing messages from the database based on the
criteria and information specific to the customer being billed;
arranging the selected billing messages based on their
priority; and
using only those selected billing messages that have the
highest priority and that can fit within the message area when generating
each customer billing statement.
Claims 18-20 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 103(a) as obvious over U.S.
Patent No. 5,121,945 ("Thomson") and U.S. Patent No. 5,177,687 ("Baggarly").
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