Appeal No. 2006-0165
Application 10/292,721
OPINION
We affirm the aforementioned rejections.
Claim 1
Suarez discloses a system and method for communication
between a dispatch center (16) and wireless communication
devices (36) in vehicles (14) such as taxicabs and delivery
trucks (col. 2, line 66 - col. 3, line 33). The input to the
dispatch center is from a message input device (24) via a
communication means which can be the Internet (col. 3,
lines 1-10). The dispatch center includes a dispatch controller
(18) that “encodes inbound requests for dispatch 28 into outbound
assignment messages 32, and decodes inbound replies 38 from the
vehicles 14 for matching of a request for dispatch 28 with a
vehicle 14 that affirmatively replies” (col. 3, lines 21-25).
The dispatch center sends the assignment message to an assignment
manager (58) in the wireless communication device, and a
processor (60) coupled to the assignment manager stores the
assignment message in a memory (54) (col. 3, lines 61-62; col. 4,
lines 32-44). “The driver then chooses to review the data 52 of
the assignment message 32 on a display screen in the case of data
messages or play the recorded voice message in the case of voice
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