Appeal 2007-2167
Application 09/991,752
Appellant has invented a method for automating portions of a data
entry process as a user enters the user information (Specification 3).
According to Appellant, by storing user information in a storage medium
and accessing the entered information, the identity of a user is determined
and additional information pertaining to the user is retrieved from the
storage medium (id.).
Claim 1, which is representative of the claims on appeal, reads as
follows:
1. An automated data entry method comprising:
entering a user information at a first location;
searching a storage medium at said first location to determine
an identity of a user based on the entered information;
accessing a storage medium at a second location upon not being
able to identify a user by searching the storage medium at said first
location, said medium at the second location containing information
for a plurality of users;
searching the storage medium at the second location to
determine an identity of said user based on the entered information;
and
retrieving additional information pertaining to the user from the
storage medium at the first or second locations based on the
determined identity.
The prior art relied upon by the Examiner in rejecting the claims on
appeal is:
Gupta US 5,826,258 Oct. 20, 1998
Gupta US 6,199,079 B1 Mar. 6, 2001
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