Appeal No. 2004-1421
Application No. 09/471,674
specification and equivalents thereof. See In re Donaldson Co.
Inc., 16 F.3d 1189, 1193, 29 USPQ2d 1845, 1848 (Fed. Cir. 1994).
The result of the above-noted claim construction is that
independent claims 5 and 10 on appeal are, when properly
construed, clearly directed to a distributed system and
infrastructure like that shown in Figure 2 of the application
drawings, thereby requiring a communication system having a
travel center (16) for an organization, first transmission means
or data transmission link (22) extending from the organization's
travel center to each of a number of travel service providers
associated with the organization and operable to transmit a
travel notification message from the travel center to each of
said travel service providers for a given organization member, a
computer (18a-18n) associated with each of the travel service
providers, and a second transmission means or data transmission
link (24) extending from each of said computers to a message
receiving device of a given member and operable to transmit a
travel preparation message generated by the computer associated
with a given one of the travel service providers to the message
receiving device accessible to the given member, said travel
preparation message comprising a list of travel services
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