Appeal Number: 2006-2190
Application Number: 09/867,068
BACKGROUND
The appellant's invention relates to a supply chain transaction network. An understanding of
the invention can be derived from a reading of exemplary claim 1, which is reproduced below.
1. A supply chain transaction network, comprising:
a customer maintenance system into which a work order is entered including
information that identifies a piece of equipment to be repaired and one or more
items expected to be used during a repair procedure;
a customer agent server in communication with the customer maintenance system
which extracts from the work order in the customer maintenance system the
information that identifies at least the items expected to be used during the repair
procedure to create an advance demand notice order for the items; and
distributor system in communication with the customer agent server which
responds to a receipt of the advance demand notice order that was created using
the information extracted from the work order to initiate a staging of the items
within a supply chain to meet an expected use of the items during the repair
procedure.
PRIOR ART
The prior art references of record relied upon by the examiner in rejecting the appealed
claims are:
Roddy US 2003/0055666 A1 March 20, 2003 (December 13, 2000)
Yang US 2001/0034673 A1 October 25, 2001(February 22, 2000)
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