Ex Parte Goldstein - Page 18



           Appeal No. 2005-0823                                                                        
           Application No. 10/300,895                                             Page 18              


                  connection with other vendor’s hardware products" (col.                              
                  2, lines 11, 12, and 15-18);                                                         
                        "The present invention, however, provides an                                   
                  integrated ‘real-time’ CRS to back-office system that                                
                  works on any industry supported architecture and is                                  
                  independent of the particular hardware system used"                                  
                  (col. 2, lines 23-26);                                                               
                        "Thus, a user can work with a client (the                                      
                  frontend) on his workstation and use resources of the                                
                  server (the back-end) only when data needs to be                                     
                  accessed" (col. 2, lines 53-56);                                                     
                        "The invention has a report generator system that                              
                  allows a non-programmer end user to create customized                                
                  and formatted reports" (col. 3, lines 21-24);                                        
                        "In particular, the present invention comprises a                              
                  centralized host computer having means for mass storage                              
                  of data" (col. 3, lines 54-56);                                                      
                        "In one of the preferred embodiments, the                                      
                  centralized host computer is one of several central                                  
                  reservation systems (CRS) such as SABRE" (col. 3, lines                              
                  58-60);                                                                              
                        "Typically a UNIX or equivalent based process                                  
                  receives, manipulates, and stores the data stream on                                 
                  the travel provider’s back-office platform" (col. 4,                                 
                  lines 1-3);                                                                          
                        "FIG. 1 shows an overall system architecture 10                                
                  comprising of either a single central host computer or                               
                  central reservation system (CRS) 20 or a plurality of                                
                  CRS’s 30.  In one of the preferred embodiments, the CRS                              
                  20 or CRS’s 30 are the various travel reservation                                    
                  systems or their equivalent.  CRS 20 or CRS’s 30                                     
                  connects to a gateway or communications server 40"                                   
                  (col. 4, line 63 through col. 5, line 1);                                            







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