Ex Parte Crawford et al - Page 6

                  Appeal 2006-2429                                                                                             
                  Application 09/999,580                                                                                       

             1                       pattern ascertained from the transaction data, based on a                                 
             2                       preexisting model to form a score for the financial account.                              
             3                       The method further includes transmitting, if the score is                                 
             4                       below a predefined financial risk threshold, the score to an                              
             5                       account issuer of the financial account.”  (Basch, col. 3, ll.                            
             6                       61-62).                                                                                   
             7            5.         “Examples of scoreable transactions include, for example,                                 
             8                       authorization requests for purchases of goods or services                                 
             9                       made on credit, clearing and settlement transactions between                              
            10                       merchants and account issuers pertaining to one or more                                   
            11                       accounts, account issuer-supplied account records, public                                 
            12                       records, and the like.”  (Basch, col. 5, ll. 11-16).                                      
            13            6.         “[T]he scoreable transactions are scored against predictive                               
            14                       model(s) within FRPS 100 to generate financial risk scores                                
            15                       and/or financial risk alerts for the account issuers."  (Basch,                           
            16                       col. 6, ll. 59-61).                                                                       
            17            7.         “[F]inancial risk scores and/or financial risk alerts may be                              
            18                       provided to one or more account issuers 102 to provide                                    
            19                       financial risk alerts pertaining to a particular account and/or                           
            20                       account holder.”  (Basch, col. 9, ll. 53-56).                                             
            21            8.         “To train the neural network of FIG. 8, for example, patterns                             
            22                       from known data sets with known results (i.e., historical                                 
            23                       scoreable transactions, the associated account, and the                                   
            24                       known risk level) are iteratively furnished to the neural net                             
            25                       of FIG. 8.”  (Basch, col. 18, ll. 4-8).                                                   
            26            9.         “The present invention relates to a data processing system                                
            27                       and method for managing financial debt instruments                                        
            28                       designed for investors whose objective is to track the                                    
            29                       performance of certain security markets within a limited                                  
            30                       period of time.”  (Tull, col. 1, ll. 8-11).                                               
            31            10.        “It is an object of the present invention to provide a financial                          
            32                       management system to develop and administer a financial                                   
            33                       debt instrument traded as a listed security to investors                                  
            34                       desiring to track the performance of a domestic or foreign                                
            35                       capital market.”  (Tull, col. 3, ll. 16-20).                                              
            36            11.        “It is a further object of the present invention to provide data                          
            37                       processing means for determining a price for a basket of                                  
            38                       shares which is packaged as a debt instrument so as to                                    

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