Appeal 2007-0820
Application 09/734,808
1 2. The words “local” or “locally” appear nowhere in the claim.
2 3. According to the claim, the “consumer electronics device”
3 comprises a “processor,” but the claim does not state where the
4 processor is located or where its functions must be performed.
5 4. Although a “consumer electronics device” may be a single,
6 unitary object, housing all the functions needed to operate the
7 device, that is not always the case. Consumer electronics
8 devices packaged to include, for example, a combination of a
9 base station and a remote transmitter, whereby the base station
10 processes information received from the remote transmitter
11 (e.g., by wireless communication), are also well known.
12 5. Claim 5 is worded broadly and thus does not exclude such a
13 combination.
14 6. Furthermore, the Specification describes, as an embodiment of
15 the inventive device, a system wherein the bioauthentication
16 and sub-credit limit matching functions reside on a server:
17 It is another object of the invention to
18 provide a method and device, which, based
19 on authentication of the user, enables the
20 owner of the account to easily delegate
21 different monetary degrees of access to the
22 owner’s single account to different people
23 and enables the entire family to access the
24 account via a bioauthentication sensor. In
25 this embodiment the account and
26 bioauthentication information is stored at a
27 server so that access to the server can be
28 achieved at home, at school, in a hotel, or
29 other remote location.
30 (Specification 2:20-3:4.)
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