Appeal 2007-1751
Application 09/769,511
1 10. Greene’s subscribers enter or program preselected telephone numbers
2 and/or a local exchange into their telephone system (Greene, col. 3,
3 ll. 27-29).
4 11. In Greene’s invention, the subscriber has an option to void or waive
5 the surcharge as for example, by pressing one or more keys on his
6 telephone key pad. If, for example, the subscriber is sympathetic to a
7 particular charity or solicitation, he or she may void the surcharge at any
8 time during the conversation by causing the call to bypass the billing and
9 crediting functions (Green, col. 3, l. 65 – col. 4, l. 4).
10 Lynch-Aird
11 12. Lynch-Aird is directed towards charge allocation in multi-user
12 networks in which access to the network is not controlled by the network
13 provider (Lynch-Aird, col. 1, ll. 5-8).
14 13. Lynch-Aird provides a communication network with at least two user
15 access points, wherein each user may be allocated a plurality of user
16 identifiers associated with respective predetermined charging schemes.
17 The network is arranged to accept communications including user
18 identifiers in each of a destination identifier field and a source identifier
19 field and a communication monitoring point is arranged to monitor user
20 identifiers in a communication to determine the charging scheme
21 (Lynch-Aird, col. 2, ll. 43-55).
22 Chang
23 14. Chang is directed towards providing telephone service customers with
24 a standardized interface for access to service control and management
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