Appeal 2006-2085
Application 09/810,629
1 consumers and coordinates the suppliers' fulfillment of consumers'
2 intentions. It does this by providing the consumer with information
3 about products and suppliers and offering objective advice, among
4 other things.” (Gershman, col. 35, ll. 38-45).
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6 8. Gersham states “[t]he user accesses a Web Browser 1810 and
7 requests product and pricing information from the integrator.”
8 (Gersham, col. 35, ll. 47-49).
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10 9. Gersham states “[t]he product and pricing information is then
11 formatted into a Web Page 1860 and returned to the customer's Web
12 Browser.” (Gersham, col. 35, ll. 58-60).
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14 10. FIG. 24 is a block diagram of an active knowledge management
15 system in accordance with a preferred embodiment of Gershman.
16 (col. 38, ll. 2-4).
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18 11. Business Data Stores and retrieves data provided by the
19 business. Calculation Performs complex business
20 calculations. (Gershman, col. 43, ll. 32-34).
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22 12. Brockman’s field of the invention is that of comparative
23 evaluation of telecommunications data. (Brockman, p. 1, ¶ [0002]).
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25 13. Brockman states “[c]onventional telecommunications rating and
26 analysis is performed by the telecommunications services provider, or
27 by a third party vendor using data from the telecommunications
28 services provider's billing data.” (Brockman, p. 1, ¶ [0009]).
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30 14. Brockman’s invention involves obtaining telecommunications
31 data of a business entity from its telecommunications vendors and
32 providing access to that business entity for aggregated and uniform
33 telecommunications detail data. After obtaining from multiple vendors
34 both the detailed information of a business entity's
35 telecommunications usage of network services and/or the
36 accompanying costs for those services, the present invention
37 aggregates the detailed information into a uniform structure to allow
38 the business entity to manage its telecommunications assets and
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