Appeal No. 2003-1632
Application 09/173,991
through 80, appellants having cancelled claims 1 through 36 and
the examiner indicating the allowance of claims 37 through 39.1
Representative claim 40 is reproduced below:
40. A method of monitoring wireless communications
between a tag computer associated with a vehicle tag and a remote
computer coupled to a tag interface unit, the method comprising
the steps of:
establishing a wireless communications link between the
tag interface unit and the vehicle tag;
providing a password associated with the tag computer
to the remote computer via the wireless communications link; and
activating at least one notification device associated
with the vehicle if the remote computer determines that the pass-
word is acceptable.
The following references are relied on by the examiner:
Chaum et al. (Chaum) 5,485,520 Jan. 16, 1996
McNair 5,559,505 Sep. 24, 1996
Carrender et al. (Carrender) 6,061,614 May 9, 2000
(filed Oct. 17, 1997)
Claims 40, 44 through 46, 49 through 52, 56 through 58,
60, 61, 64 through 66, 70, 73 and 76 stand rejected under
35 U.S.C. § 102(b) as being anticipated by Chaum. The remaining
claims on appeal are rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 103. As evidence
1 In Paper No. 17 filed on January 17, 2002, in which
appellants attempt to add new claims 40 through 80, there is no
listed claim 53 as filed.
2
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