Appeal No. 2004-1484
Application 09/438,396
In light of the foregoing, we will not sustain the
examiner’s rejection of claim 1, or claims 2 through 6 which
depend therefrom, under 35 U.S.C. § 103(a).
Independent claim 7 is directed to a computer system for
managing customer purchase information including, inter alia, a
memory coupled to a first processor, with said memory having
stored therein
profit margin information of a customer purchase of at least
one product having a profit margin, current sale
information, and sequences of instructions which, when
executed by said first processor, cause said first processor
to manage customer purchase information by causing said
first processor to command said second processor to execute
instructions to cause the memory of the portable device to
increment a stored category value by an amount in relation
to the customer purchase information and a profit margin
information of the customer purchase.
As with claim 1, it is our opinion that the descriptive
material relating to profit margin information as set forth in
independent claim 7 is functionally interrelated with the
operation of a specially programmed computer programmed to manage
customer purchase information based on profit margin information
of a customer purchase of at least one product having a profit
margin and current sale information, and to cause a first
processor of the computer system to command a second processor of
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