Appeal No. 2005-1540
Application No. 09/887,626
1. A curtailment module for enabling an energy provider to send
a request to curtail energy use to a user, the curtailment module
comprising:
an interface for electronic communications with a
temperature control device;
a paging module for receiving the request from the energy
provider through a paging network;
a processor in electronic communication with the paging
module for receiving the request from the paging
module; and
memory in electronic communication with the processor, the
memory storing history data, and the memory being
programmed with verification instructions to generate a
verification code to be used by a user to manually
verify whether the request was followed, wherein the
history data is not the same as the verification code.
The prior art references of record relied upon by the
examiner in rejecting the appealed claims are:
Von Kohorn 5,128,752 Jul. 07, 1992
Hunter 5,243,654 Sep. 07, 1993
Glorioso et al. (Glorioso) 5,926,776 Jul. 20, 1999
Claims 1 through 26 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 103 as
being unpatentable over Glorioso in view of Von Kohorn and
Hunter.
Reference is made to the Examiner's Answer (Paper No. 13,
mailed May 6, 2004) for the examiner's complete reasoning in
support of the rejections, and to appellants' Brief (Paper
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