Appeal 2007-0209
Application 10/021,621
a display providing one or more display objects associated with
delivery of one or more messages, the messages being automatically
classified according to a respective priority value; and
one or more inputs associated with the display objects to facilitate
adaptation of the user interface to one or more preferences of a user, the one
or more inputs includes at least one or more user preferences for assigning a
priority value to a voice message based at least in part on acoustical
properties of the voice message.
23. A method associated with message delivery, comprising:
generating a priority associated with a message;
determining an expected loss of non-review of the message at a
current time based at least on the message priority and an expected rate of
lost opportunity for the user resulting from non-review of the message as a
function of time;
determining an expected cost of outputting the message at the current
time; and
alerting a user of the message in response to determining that the
expected loss is greater than the expected cost.
Appellants contend that Losee does not anticipate claims 23 through
26 and 34 through 39. Particularly, Appellants contend that Losee does not
fairly teach or suggest determining an expected rate of lost opportunity to
the user as a function of time, as recited in representative claim 23. (Br. 6,
Reply Br. 6). Appellants also contend for the same reasons that Losee, taken
in combination with Eggleston, does not render claims 27 through 33
unpatentable under 35 U.S.C. § 103 (a). Further, Appellants contend that
Smith and Badt in various combinations with Aderlind, Marx, Eggleston,
Helfman, Abu Hakima, Wright and Cooper do not render claims 1 through
22 unpatentable under 35 U.S.C. § 103 (a). Particularly, Appellants argue
that the proposed combinations do not fairly teach or suggest assigning a
priority value to a voice message based at least in part on acoustical
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