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          Appeal No. 2005-0903                                                        
          Application 10/170,305                                                      
                                      Invention                                       
               Appellants’ invention relates to a computerized method and             
          system for generating reports and diagnostics which measure                 
          effectiveness of an event or product or service promoted at the             
          event wherein attendee opinions and answers can be monitored in             
          “real-time” to enable event “tweaking” on specific areas,                   
          especially for multi-day events.  Also, such feedback can be                
          quickly used to balance specific quotas from respondents (i.e.,             
          the need for more opinions from women, minority/diverse groups,             
          etc.)  The diagnostics may included an event consumer purchase              
          funnel profile.  Appellants’ specification at page 4, lines                 
          15-21, and page 6, lines 10-11.                                             

               Claim 1 is representative of the claimed invention and is              
          reproduced as follows:                                                      
               1.  A computerized method for generating event attendee                
          customer profile reports and diagnostics which measure                      
          effectiveness of at least one of an event, a product and a                  
          service promoted at the event, the method comprising:                       
               obtaining demographic, and at least one of product, service            
          and event data from attendees of the event using a plurality of             
          interactive, attendee-accessible data entry devices;                        
               storing the obtained data in an attendee database; and                 
               processing the stored data using a processor to generate the           
          event attendee customer profile reports and diagnostics which               
          measure effectiveness of at least one of the event, the product             
          and the service, wherein the diagnostics comprise an event funnel           

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