Appeal 2007-0844
Application 10/790,473
This is a decision on appeal under 35 U.S.C. §§ 6(b) and 134 from the
Examiner's final rejection of claims 1-24.
We AFFIRM.
BACKGROUND
Appellant’s invention relates to a system for disabling custom calling
features for calls originating from a restricted area. An understanding of the
invention can be derived from a reading of exemplary claim 1, which is
reproduced below.
1. A system for restricting telephone calls that originate from a facility,
the system comprising:
at least one facility resident telephone configured to originate and
present a call signal;
a switching office; and
a destination telephone, wherein the at least one facility resident
telephone, the switching office, and the destination telephone are electrically
serially coupled such that a call signal originating at the at least one facility
resident telephone is routed to the destination telephone via the switching
office, and wherein the switching office disables at least one custom calling
feature corresponding to the call signal upon determining the call signal as
originating from the at least one facility resident telephone.
PRIOR ART
The prior art reference of record relied upon by the Examiner in
rejecting the appealed claims is:
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