Appeal No. 2005-0823
Application No. 10/300,895 Page 9
to a customer, reporting the issuance of the ticket to an
intermediate agent on Tuesday night, and imposing a fee for
changes made after the issuance of the ticket has been reported.
The examiner notes that IAH does not disclose that “the
prescribed rate minimizes the amount of time between issuance and
reporting." We consider the examiner’s statement to mean that
IAH does not disclose reporting the issuance of the ticket by the
following day. To make up for this deficiency of IAH, the
examiner turns to Brice for a teaching of "the SABRE system which
retrieves the reports from the intermediate agent as a batch
process that can be scheduled to occur alternately on Monday at 1
am, or daily, monthly or periodically." The examiner notes that
Brice also does not teach "the motivation more frequent
reporting." The examiner's statement is not very clear.
However, we consider the examiner to be attempting to say that
Brice also does not disclose reporting the issuance of the travel
ticket by the following day. To overcome the deficiencies of IAH
and Brice, the examiner (answer, page 4) turns to IATA for a
teaching of a "suggestion by Bruce Bishins, President of U.S.
Travel Agency [sic] Registry" that “‘the airlines alleged that
ARC would soon ‘enhance’ IAR to move the world to daily reporting
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