Appeal No. 2004-0786
Application No. 08/935,116 Page 6
the data stored therein to perform the credit verifications and
marketing functions disclosed in the application. Appellants add
that the computer implemented customer database is clearly useful
to the merchant, and its disclosed uses are useful, concrete and
tangible, being for credit determination and targeted customer
marketing.
From our review of claim 33, we find that the claim is
directed to a computer implemented customer database having
stored transaction data from prior point-of-sale transactions for
a plurality of customers. The claim additionally recites that
data regarding a customer's prior transactions are stored in
association with an identification of the customer and that the
transaction data includes the dollar amount of purchases and time
period. From our analysis of the language of claim 33, we find
that the computer implemented customer database is useful to a
merchant, as the database has stored customer data. We
additionally find that the database with customer transaction
information is tangible as it contains specific customer
transaction information. Moreover, we find that the storing of
the dollar amount of purchases and time period is concrete, as
the dollar amounts of different transactions for each customer
are stored. From all of the above, we find independent claim 33
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