Appeal No. 2005-0823
Application No. 10/300,895 Page 2
BACKGROUND
Appellant’s invention relates to a method and system for
reporting of issued airline tickets. In particular, the
invention relates to transmitting a report of a ticket sale from
a travel agent to an intermediate agent at a prescribed rate and
imposing a fee for exchanging the ticket if, after the report has
been sent, the customer determines that the ticket is
unacceptable (specification, page 5). An understanding of the
invention can be derived from a reading of exemplary claim 1,
which is reproduced as follows:
1. A method of purchasing a travel ticket from a travel
agent, comprising:
issuing the travel ticket by the travel agent to a customer;
reporting the issuance of the travel ticket externally and
by the following day after the issuance of the travel ticket, the
reporting occurring via a computer and an electronic
communications device; and
imposing a fee for effecting changes to the travel ticket
made after the issuance has been reported.
The prior art references of record relied upon by the
examiner in rejecting the appealed claims are:
Brice et al. (Brice) 5,764,981 Jun. 9, 1988
Cogswell, David, “ARC Automates Agents,” Travel Agent, pg. 81,
Dec. 15, 1997.
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