Appeal No. 2004-2037
Application No. 09/769,291
a) stocking a given amount of inventory onto said transport
at the start of said trip;
b) downloading data relating to said given amount of
inventory to a portable processor terminal from one of a
plurality of data processor terminals;
c) docking said portable terminal onto said transport;
d) updating the data in said portable terminal to reflect
the remaining amount of stocked inventory or the amount of
stocked inventory used or sold, or becoming not usable on said
transport, as the inventory gets depleted during said trip; and
e) uploading data reflecting the amount of stocked inventory
left on said transport and/or used or becoming not usable from
said portable terminal to said one or an other of said plurality
of data processor terminals at the end of said trip.
References
The references relied on by the Examiner are as follows:
Diamond et al. (Diamond) 6,370,515 Apr. 9, 2002
(filed Jun. 14, 1999)
Bobowicz et al. (Bobowicz) GB 2205428 Dec. 7, 1988
Rejections At Issue
Claims 1-23 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 103 as being
obvious over the combination of Bobowicz and Diamond.
Throughout our opinion, we make references to the
Appellants' briefs, and to the Examiner's Answer for the
respective details thereof.1
1 Appellants filed an appeal brief on February 2, 2004.
Appellants filed a reply brief on June 4, 2004. The Examiner
mailed an Examiner's Answer on April 9, 2004.
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