Appeal No. 2006-1090 Application No. 09/848,005 BACKGROUND The invention relates to item transports in financial document processing systems that serve to receive, process, and sort documents. A typical item transport is quite large and requires an operator to walk a distance to get from one side or end of the machine to the other. An operator may be working at one area of the transport when a problem occurs, requiring the operator to walk to the display area, read an error message, and proceed to an area of the transport that requires the operator’s attention. The operator must also walk to the display area to enter commands into the item transport, via a keyboard or other input device. A need thus exists for a way that, according to appellant, an operator of a document processing system may receive messages and enter commands without needing to move to the display area of the system. (Spec. at 1- 2.) Appellant’s invention includes a portable control unit by which the operator may wirelessly receive messages and enter commands. Representative claims 20 and 25 are reproduced below. 20. A financial document processing system comprising: a financial document processing transport including (i) means defining a document transport path along which financial documents can be transported, and (ii) a first display for allowing an operator to view an operator message which relates to an exception condition which has occurred along the document transport path; a transport controller including (i) means for controlling operation of the transport, and (ii) means for generating an operator message when an exception condition occurs along the document transport path; -2-Page: Previous 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 NextLast modified: November 3, 2007