Appeal No. 2006-3280
Application No. 09/874,152
event that the calling party is dropped while waiting on hold, an
intelligent peripheral would place a call to the calling party.
The ordinarily skilled artisan would have readily recognized that
the combined references merely disclose a mechanism for allowing
the intelligent peripheral to call the calling party upon being
disconnected from the AIN. In other words, the ordinarily
skilled artisan would have found that the Weisser-Knoerle-Watts
combination is limited to queuing calls to the subscriber line in
an AIN system; connecting each of these calls to the subscriber
line as it becomes available; and dialing the calling party from
the intelligent peripheral if the calling party was dropped while
waiting on hold. The ordinarily skilled would have found,
however, that the cited combination does not amount to dialing
the subscriber line (called party) from the intelligent
peripheral to determine whether said party is still busy or
available for communication with the next calling party waiting
in line.
In consequence, we find error in the examiner’s stated
position, which concludes that the combination of Weisser,
Knoerle and Watts teaches the claimed limitation of dialing the
subscriber line from the intelligent peripheral of the AIN
telecommunications system to determine whether the subscriber
line is no longer busy.
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