Appeal No. 2005-0823
Application No. 10/300,895 Page 46
tickets and volumes. Claim 2 recites that "wherein a rate of
said reporting is dependent on traffic of a network that is used
for said method." Claim 3 contains similar language but is
directed to the rate of reporting being directed to the volume of
sales. From the disclosure of Brice that different system
architectures are needed for different sales volumes, we find
that the larger the volume of ticket sales, the larger the system
architecture that is needed. Appellant is correct that Brice
does not disclose reporting to the airlines or IAR. We find from
Brice (col. 4, lines 54-60) that the centralized host computer is
one of several central reservation systems (CRSs) or a plurality
of CSRs configured to perform a plurality of back-office
functions (col. 4, lines 62-65 and col.8, lines 56-58). Thus,
although Brice implies (from the disclosure of larger
architectures being needed for larger volumes of sales) that
larger architectures prevent loss of network speed that would
occur if the network was congested from large sales volumes or
other reasons, we find no disclosure in Brice that network
transmission speed slows down when the network is congested, such
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