Appeal 2006-3074
Application 10/035,464
method includes monitoring the communication activity at a store host and
activating a bogus message generator at a wireless terminal in the store
during periods of low activity received at the store host. Claim 1 is
illustrative of the claimed invention, and it reads as follows:
1. A system for securing transactional data transmitted over a wireless
network in a store comprising:
a bogus message generator coupled to a wireless terminal in a store,
the bogus message generator for generating bogus messages to be
transmitted by the wireless terminal;
a store host computer for receiving transactional and bogus messages
from the wireless terminal; and
a communication parameter regulator for measuring a communication
parameter on the store host computer, the communication parameter
regulator operable to activate the bogus message generator so that the bogus
message generator is activated in accordance with the measured
communication parameter.
The prior art references of record relied upon by the Examiner in
rejecting the appealed claims are:
Cory US 4,262,359 Apr. 14, 1981
Nordenstam WO 00/46959 Aug. 10, 2000
Munger US 6,502,135 B1 Dec. 31, 2002
(filed Feb. 15, 2000)
Claims 1 through 20 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 103 as being
unpatentable over Nordenstam in view of Cory and Munger.
We refer to the Examiner’s Answer (mailed April 21, 2006) and to
Appellants’ Brief (filed January 9, 2006) and Reply Brief (filed May 25,
2006) for the respective arguments.
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