Appeal 2007-0932 Application 10/058,924 include the claimed patient identification information of a subject as well as so-called subject information that may be used by a photographer. A key to understanding the nature of McDonald are the statements at column 4, lines 47 through 55, and the additional statements at column 5, lines 1 through 8. The system 20 in figure 1 is stated to include all functionality necessary to identify a patient before an ultrasound imaging scan is to take place after the creation of an admission record for the patient. The emphasis is upon the hospital facility maintaining impeccable records to identify and track subsequent ultrasound scans to ensure that each scan is accurately associated with a specific patient and on a specific date. This emphasis is focused upon the accuracy and the correct association of each image scanned with each patient. Thus, the demographic data module is stated to be included, as shown in figure 1, in each capture station 22 and review station 26. Each review station 26 includes the capability for reviewing a pre-scanned image according to the discussion beginning at column 9, and to do so upon a display device or computer display associated with each module. Because the demographic data module is included within image capture station 22, it is only by inference rather than explicitly disclosed in McDonald as the Examiner indicates in the rejection, that the earlier-noted key patient information is interpreted by the artisan to be displayed to the operator before the ultrasound scan occurs. Additionally, it is noted at the bottom of column 3 that the figure 1 system 20 includes client machines 22, 26 each of which comprise personal computers which have the earlier-noted image display associated with them. The discussion beginning at the middle 6Page: Previous 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 Next
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