Appeal 2007-1554
Application 10/844,387
Robinson discloses verification of the receipt contents by verification
comprising extracting the digital receipt, decrypting the transaction record and
returning details of the transaction to the presenting party (Robinson, col. 8,
ll. 45-57), and wherein the presenting party, e.g., one of the merchant or customer,
may then compare the transaction details to any previously stored version of the
transaction details that the presenting party possesses (Robinson, col. 8, ll. 58-61).
Claim 34 recites only that the transaction record be protected from
modification by the parties to the transaction, but says nothing about prohibiting
viewing of transaction data by any party to the transaction.
The Examiner found that in Robinson, the merchant computer 98
responsible for generating the digital receipt, “may in fact be operated not directly
by the merchant but rather by an electronic transaction service provider in close
cooperation with and under the authority of the merchant” (Robinson col. 7,
ll. 39-42).
Robinson does not explicitly disclose protecting the details in the transaction
record from modification by the parties to the transaction because the transaction
record was originally encrypted under the direction of the merchant, e.g. a party to
the transaction, and the merchant computer simply uses the same private key to
extract the transaction data (Robinson col. 8, ll. 49-52) which may allow the
merchant the opportunity to modify the transaction data during the original
encryption process.
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