Appeal No. 2005-2528
Application No. 09/576,093
BACKGROUND
The invention relates to an information caching system and method in which
destination email addresses and facsimile numbers may be automatically stored for
each user of a sending device. Representative claim 1 is reproduced below.
1. A method for processing sending information in a sending device,
comprising:
receiving an entry input by a user at the sending device, the entry
comprising sending information that identifies a destination to which information
is to be sent by the sending device;
responsive to the entry, cross-referencing the user-entered sending
information with a contacts database that contains recipient sending information
of the user to determine if the user-entered sending information matches sending
information saved in the contacts database, wherein the contacts database is
stored within memory of the sending device; and
automatically caching the user-entered sending information in the contacts
database if the user-entered sending information has not been previously saved.
The examiner relies on the following references:
Nielsen US 6,405,243 B1 Jun. 11, 2002
(filed Apr. 5, 1996)
Reilly US 6,427,164 B1 Jul. 30, 2002
(filed Jun. 23, 1999)
Claims 1, 5-10, 12-24, and 30 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 103 as being
unpatentable over Nielsen and Reilly.
We refer to the Final Rejection (mailed Mar. 31, 2004) and the Examiner’s
Answer (mailed Jan. 4, 2005) for a statement of the examiner’s position and to the Brief
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