Appeal 2007-1554
Application 10/844,387
against the parties to the transaction as claimed. We decline to accept this portion
of the disclosure as one which describes protecting transaction details of Robinson
against modification by either party to the transaction.
However, we do find other portions of Ginter that teach protecting inputted
details of a transaction against modification by opposed parties to the transaction.
Specifically, Ginter describes a trusted electronic go-between 4700 used in
an electronic transaction to maintain a “secure archive of data, receipts, and other
information about transmissions senders … send to recipients ...” (Ginter, col. 22,
ll. 55-59). In Ginter, the parties to the transaction delegate to the go-between 4700
the tracking of details to a transaction1 based on data entered by each party (Ginter,
col. 23, ll. 61-66) so that no one party can change the data entered by the other and
so protect the transaction from un-agreed to modification. In that regard, no one
party to the transaction brokered by the go-between 4700 has control over input of
the transaction details, much in the same way as Appellants’ Web Receipt Service
1.3 extracts transaction data from the Service 1.2. The Service 1.2 similarly locks
in time against modification the transaction data at the point of sale, e.g., point of
contract consummation, using such known processes as, e.g., a date stamping and
digital signatures.
1 Black’s Law Dictionary Seventh Edition defines “transaction” very generally as:
2. something performed or carried out, a business agreement or exchange. Thus,
the contract created by the go-between 4700 is read as a transaction carried out
electronically answering the terms of claim 34.
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