Appeal No. 2005-0823
Application No. 10/300,895 Page 45
claims recite that the rate of reporting is dependent on ticket
sales volume. Accordingly, we select claim 2 as representative
of the first group, and select claim 3 as representative of the
second group. With respect to both claims, it is argued by
appellant that Brice only teaches that system architecture can be
changed based on the volume of tickets or the amount of traffic,
and that Brice says nothing about the reporting rate. The
examiner's position (answer, page 4) is that "Brice et al teaches
[that] the processing rate can be modified by the system
architecture to take system traffic into account to adjust for
reporting rates." We note at the outset that the examiner's
broad reference to col. 4, line 60 to col. 7, line 35 is not
helpful as it is not very specific as to exactly what portions of
Brice are being relied upon.
From our review of Brice, we find that col. 6, lines 35-40
discuss the scalability of the systems's architecture which allow
the system to be used by both small travel companies that have
lass than 2000 ticket transactions each month, to large global
agencies that have over 100,000 ticket transactions per month,
per database server. Table 1 contains a general description of
examples of the system architecture configurations based on
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