Appeal No. 2005-0956 Page 3
Application No. 09/342,866
service might be attainable for free if the buyer can achieve a certain
performance level while participating in the PDA.
Appellant’s specification at page 3, line 8, through page 4, line 4.
Claim 1 is representative of the claimed invention and is reproduced as
follows:
1. A method of doing business over a global communications network
comprising the steps:
communicating to a buyer via the global communications network, a
description of a product;
accepting a first request from the buyer to buy the product for a price to be
determined within a price range;
accepting a second request from the buyer to allow the price to be
determined based upon a performance of the buyer while participating in a Price-
Determining-Activity (PDA);
receiving data from the buyer over the global communications network, said data
representing the performance of the buyer during the PDA; and
determining the price of the product based at least partially upon the data
received, said price being within the price range and scaled to the performance
of the buyer.
References
The references relied on by the Examiner are as follows:
Marino et al. (Marino) 4,850,007 Jul. 18, 1989
Rossides 5,269,521 Dec. 14, 1993
Kelly et al. (Kelly) 5,816,918 Oct. 6, 1998
Goldhaber et al. (Goldhaber) 5,855,008 Dec. 29, 1998
“Allotafun To Develop Extensive Toy Internet Site”; PR Newswire; December 3, 1998;
pp 1-2. (Allotafun)
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