Ex Parte Patullo et al - Page 9

              Appeal 2007-1315                                                                                              
              Application 09/828,437                                                                                        

         1                sends display data to presentation program 108 to display a screen                                
         2                depicting restaurants by searching for geographically close restaurants to                        
         3                the hotel or destination and searching any other constraints entered by                           
         4                the user such as the type of food, amenities, ratings in the travel database                      
         5                (step 610).  In this step, ARS 122 sends display data to presentation                             
         6                program 108 which displays a screen like the one shown in FIG. 6B.                                
         7                This screen depicts various restaurants and various features of the                               
         8                restaurants, like average meal cost, level of cleanliness, type of food, etc.                     
         9                The user makes various selections on this screen and the activity and                             
        10                restaurant subsystem performs various processing in response to these                             
        11                selections.”  (Jones, ¶ [0053].)                                                                  
        12        Among                                                                                                     
        13            10. Among is directed toward managing a tour product purchase, and                                    
        14                more specifically, toward permitting buyers to select a final option that                         
        15                includes customized components and multi-site reservations and vendors                            
        16                to directly manage tour product inventory online and in real-time.                                
        17                (Among, ¶ [0003].)                                                                                
        18            11. Among states that one of the objects of its invention is to give a                                
        19                potential buyer the ability to instantly mix and match suboptions for                             
        20                various components, and then easily mix and match additional                                      
        21                suboptions for other components to compare price conveniently.                                    
        22                (Among, ¶ [0014].)                                                                                
        23            12. Among describes the informational transfer included in its flight                                 
        24                information process, such that flight information and airline flight                              
        25                inventory 109 may be housed on an external database 110, accessed by                              

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