Ex Parte Seligmann - Page 9



         Appeal No. 2006-3323                                                       
         Application No. 10/287,151                                                 
              upon the expanding data base covering vehicles traveling on           
              the particular route under similar operating conditions at            
              similar times of the day, week and month, and schedules.              
              [Emphasis added].                                                     
              With the above discussion in mind, we find that with regard to        
         representative  claim  1,  the  Schmier  reference  teaches  an            
         information system for notifying passengers waiting for public             
         transportation of arrival times of public transit vehicles.                
         Particularly, Schmier teaches a public transit vehicle equipped            
         with a mobile communication system including a GPS that transmits a        
         signal to a central computer for notifying the latter of the               
         current location of the public transit vehicle. Upon receiving the         
         vehicle location signal, the central computer estimates the time of        
         arrival of the vehicle to a particular station based upon the              
         received location signal and historical statistic pertaining to the        
         same itinerary. The central computer subsequently sends the                
         estimated time of arrival for a particular vehicle at a particular         
         stop directly to the passenger waiting at the station or to a              
         public display at the station for all passengers to see.  Schmier          
         also teaches that the central computer may also estimate time              
         intervals between adjacent transit stops.                                  



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