Appeal No. 2004-1421
Application No. 09/471,674
defined in appellants' claims 5 and 10 on appeal. We have also
reviewed the patents to Robertson and Vance relied upon by the
examiner, however, we find nothing therein which makes up for or
otherwise supplies (i.e., renders obvious) that which is lacking
in Flake.
We additionally note that claims 1 and 5 on appeal require a
method and system wherein a computer associated with a given
travel service provider is configured to determine whether a
given organization member was identified in a previously received
travel notification message and to make a selection between a
first travel preparation message comprising a complete list of
travel services available to the member and a second travel
preparation message comprising only a list of updating travel
services available dependent upon whether the given member was or
was not identified in a previously received travel notification
message, and send a complete list if no prior identification is
found and only an updating list of services if the member was
identified in a previously received travel notification message.
As indicated on page 3 of appellants' specification, this
selection of which list of services a given service provider will
send to a given member minimizes redundancies. No such system
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