Appeal No. 2006-0395
Application No. 10/116,735
Similarly, argue appellants, independent claim 16 also recites reconfiguring a
POS device to enable access to a transaction system.
With regard to independent claim 21, appellants argue that Moderi does not
disclose the claimed limitations of a plurality of reconfigurable POS devices
communicatively coupled to a communication network where each POS device includes
a memory which comprises instructions to request access to each of a plurality of
transaction systems and to receive additional instructions to enable the POS device to
use one of the transaction systems.
In response, the examiner asserts that reconfiguring takes place in Moderi when
the keys are reprogrammed in order to actually process a transaction, enabling access
to the transaction system. It is the examiner’s view that since claim 1 does not
specifically disclose what constitutes “enabling access to the transaction system,” the
examiner interprets that the reconfiguring of keys is, in fact, enabling access to the
transaction system. The examiner then states that
Moderi does indeed disclose that the loading of software and hence the
reconfiguration of the point of sale device facilitate access to the
transaction system when it is taught that the instructions are loaded into
the system to program the touch keys of the register, in order for the
transactions to be able to take place. In addition, Moderi teaches that the
method for networking a microcomputer to a physically separated shared
memory device to enable the microcomputer to operate as a POS register
and to ensure the integrity of sales data generated by the microcomputer
is disclosed, which also shows that the receiving and loading of the
instructions that are executable by the POS is for facilitating access to the
transaction system (answer-page 8).
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