Appeal No. 2005-1033 Page 8
Application No. 10/236,460
resources (as of money or manpower) and expenditures.'' "The amount of money
available, required, or assigned to a particular purpose."
The appellant's specification provides (p. 11) the following with respect to Figure
1b:
ln accordance with the present invention, a budget is assigned to the automation
component AK2 and/or industrial machine M2 for limited and unlimited access by
the industrial machine M2 and/or automation component AK2. Assignment of the
budget is implemented, for example, by payment transaction G3. This payment
transaction G3 provides an instrument of payment for the automation component
AK2 and/or industrial machine M2. An example of such an instrument of
payment is at least a software code which is commensurate with a particular
monetary value and serves as instrument of payment with respect to a supplier
AN2 of production goods. Another process for establishment of a budget for the
automation component AK2 and/or industrial machine M2 is characterized by
payment transaction G2 which involves a transfer of funds from the customer K2
to the supplier AN2, so that the supplier AN2 has at his disposal a budget of
funds.
In our view, the broadest reasonable meaning of the term "budget" as it would be
understood by one of ordinary skill in the art, taking into account both the written
description contained in the appellant's specification and the plain meaning provided by
the above-quoted definition provided by the appellant is the amount of money available,
required, or assigned to a particular purpose. This definition encompasses both
(1) assignment of a budget by payment transaction G3 from the customer K2 to the
automation component AK2 and/or industrial machine M2; and (2) payment transaction
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