Appeal No. 2005-0823
Application No. 10/300,895 Page 17
been reported, the examiner does not point out where the teaching
of this is found in IAH, other than a brief reference to Sections
8.6 and 10.
From our review of IAH, we find a teaching of charging a fee
for changes after the reporting period on page 5, right column,
where it states that in assembling the (weekly) report,
the agent should "[v]erify that all exchanges and refund
transactions have penalty information, if applicable." Although
this portion of IAH states that penalties will be charged for
changes or exchanges after the report period had ended, it does
not state whether the penalty fees are charged to the travel
agent or the customer. However, claim 1 does not specify who the
fee is charged to.
Turning to Brice, we make the following findings of fact:
Brice relates "to a data management method and architecture
allowing user-absent execution of scheduled batch tasks and
administration of accounting information in environments that
typically involve multiple users requiring access to centrally
stored data such as the travel industry " (col. 1, lines 11-17);
"while back-office systems for the travel provider
have existed for several years, . . . "none of the
prior art back-office accounting and reporting systems
are easily ported to other architectures or used in
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