Appeal No. 2004-2037
Application No. 09/769,291
goods are loaded onto the train, the portable terminal is docked
to the appropriate car of the train, such as for example the
diner car. As the inventory is depleted during the trip such as
for example by being sold or becoming unusable, the amount of
inventory left is updated to the portable terminal. This is
usually done when a sale of a particular item to a passenger is
made. At the end of the trip, with the information relating to
the amount of inventory depleted during the trip having been
entered thereinto, the portable terminal is removed from the
train. At the commissary of the depot station where the train is
at and where the inventory remaining from the trip is being
unloaded, the service agent in charge of the portable terminal
connects the portable terminal to a workstation located thereat
so as to upload the data stored in the portable terminal to the
workstation. The workstation then uploads the thus retrieved
data from the portable terminal to a host server that may be
centrally located or located at the headquarters of the railroad
company. Appellants’ specification at page 2, line 24, through
page 3, line 15.
Claim 1 is representative of the claimed invention and is
reproduced as follows:
1. A method of keeping tabs on the usage of inventory on a
transport making a trip between at least two locations,
comprising the steps of:
2
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