Appeal No. 2004-1808
Application No. 09/633,916
THE INVENTION
The appellant claims a system and method for enabling the
use of digital postage. Claim 6, which claims the method, is
illustrative:
6. A method for enabling the use of digital postage,
comprising the steps of:
a) receiving a request for a certain amount of digital
postage;
b) determining an initial pointer value;
c) providing a random sequence of bits associated with
the pointer value having a length corresponding to the
amount of digital postage requested; and
(d) providing as digital postage the random sequence of
bits and the initial pointer value.
THE REFERENCES
Briscoe 6,341,273 Jan. 22, 2002
(§ 102(e) date Apr. 29, 1998)
Leon 6,424,954 Jul. 23, 2002
(filed Feb. 16, 1999)
THE REJECTION
Claims 1-20 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 103 as being
unpatentable over Briscoe in view of Leon.
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