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);Page: Previous 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 NextLast modified: November 3, 2007