Appeal No. 2005-2686
Application No. 09/879,823
computers.
Representative claim 47 is reproduced as follows:
47. A method comprising:
determining a target audience of one or more users of devices coupled to
a network, wherein the target audience is determined based on one or more
preferences of the users stored in the respective users’ devices; and
providing a coupon to the target audience determined, wherein each
coupon may be used a predetermined number of times, wherein providing a coupon to
the target audience further comprises:
determining a subset of users of the network based on a preference
profile;
delivering one or more coupons to the subset of users; and
monitoring redemption of the one or more coupons such that each coupon
may be used a predetermined number of times.
The examiner relies on the following reference:
Von Kohorn 5,227,874 July 13, 1993
Claims 47-62 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 112, first paragraph, as containing
subject matter that was not described in the specification in such a way as to
reasonably convey to one skilled in the relevant art that the inventors, at the time the
application was filed, had possession of the claimed invention.
Claims 47-62 also stand rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 102(b) as being anticipated by the
disclosure of Von Kohorn.
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