Appeal No. 2004-1421
Application No. 09/471,674
and seeks to automatically provide such members with important
travel information from a number of different and specialized
travel service providers, e.g., a medical office or clinic which
provides information concerning immunization recommendations for
countries to which travel is intended and guidance for dealing
with medical emergencies in such countries, and/or an information
technologies (IT) operation which provides, for example, a laptop
computer to a member/traveler and appropriate adapters and other
components to make the computer equipment useable at foreign
sites. Another aspect of appellants' invention relates to
providing different levels of information to members of the
business or organization who are planning to engage in
international travel depending upon whether or not the individual
traveler has previously received travel service information from
a contacted travel service provider. Independent claims 1, 5 and
10 are representative of the subject matter on appeal and a copy
of those claims can be found in Appendix A of appellants' brief.1
1 A minor error appears in claim 5 as reproduced in Appendix
A of the brief and as reproduced in the amendment filed October
10, 2002 (Paper No. 6). More specifically, the clause in claim 5
reciting a second data transmission link erroneously recites "the
second data link of a given member of a given computer being
disposed to transmit a first travel preparation message to said
message receiving device," when this portion of the claim should
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