Appeal No. 2006-2742 Application No. 10/115,138 a determination unit for determining whether the user is an authorized user based upon the user identification data that has been received by said user identification data receiving unit; a unique ID generating unit for generating a unique ID in response to a determination by said determination unit to the effect that the user is an authorized user; a file generating unit for generating a file including an e-mail address, which includes the unique ID generated by said unique ID generating unit; and a file transmitting unit for transmitting the file generated by said file generating unit, to said portable electronic device; said portable electronic device comprises: a file receiving unit for receiving the file transmitted from said file transmitting unit of said database server; and a first registration-target data transmitting unit for transmitting data, which is to be registered in said database server, by e-mail to an e-mail address included in the file received by said file receiving unit; and said mail server comprises a registration-target data receiving unit for receiving data transmitted by e-mail from said first registration-target data transmitting unit of said portable electronic device. The Examiner relies on the following references in rejecting the claims: U.S. Patents Talati et al. (Talati) 5,903,878 May 11, 1999 Speicher 5,996,006 Nov. 30, 1999 Herman et al. (Herman) 6,341,353 Jan. 22, 2002 (filed Dec. 10, 1999) 3Page: Previous 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 NextLast modified: November 3, 2007