Appeal No. 2005-0508
Application No. 09/024,923
the examiner that any call made includes the called telephone
number encoded within the call even if the encoding constitutes
nothing more than the telephone number itself or the Internet
address of the computer being called. As noted by the examiner,
the term “encoded” is broad enough to read on almost any
information such as the telephone number. It is clear that Iwami
uses the extracted information, that is, the telephone number, to
access a look-up table as claimed (see Figure 18). Regarding the
motivation to combine, Chang is only cited to teach that it was
known to communicate telephone calls between a standard telephone
and a computer on the Internet. We agree with the examiner that
it would have been obvious to the artisan to replace the generic
LAN taught by Iwami with the Internet in order to provide a wider
network for the system of Iwami to be used.
In summary, we find that the examiner has established a
prima facie case of the obviousness of the claims on appeal, and
appellant’s arguments have not persuaded us that the rejection is
in error. Therefore, the decision of the examiner rejecting
claims 1, 4-7, 10-13, 15 and 18 is affirmed.
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