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              Appeal 2007-2215                                                                                     
              Application 09/918,287                                                                               
         1    selection, and the code includes “information on the selected imaging service and                    
         2    information inputted by the customer on seating location of the customer at the                      
         3    entertainment event.”                                                                                
         4          3. In the process recited in independent claim 16, images are displayed                        
         5    to a customer at an entertainment event on an interactive display screen accessible                  
         6    at the customer’s seating location, and an interactive selection session is offered to               
         7    the customer to permit the customer “while seated at the seating location, to select                 
         8    a desired image or images from the displayed images and select a desired image                       
         9    product representative of the desired image or images.”                                              
        10          4. The invention is also directed to an imaging service kiosk which                            
        11    includes an imaging service display section and a customer input section through                     
        12    which a customer may select one of the displayed imaging services and enter                          
        13    information representative of his or her seating location at an entertainment event,                 
        14    and the selected imaging service includes creating images having at least one                        
        15    image of participants in the event and at least one image of the customer viewing                    
        16    the event.  (Specification 2, ll. 18-26).                                                            
        17          5. In the imaging services kiosk recited in independent claims 8, 10, and                      
        18    12, the information entered by the customer representative of the customer’s                         
        19    seating location is “for use in directing the image capturing device toward the                      
        20    seating location [of the customer].”                                                                 
        21          6. Claims 1, 8, 10, 12, and 16 are the only independent claims and are                         
        22    reproduced below:                                                                                    
        23                 1. A method of offering imaging services to a customer, the                             
        24          method comprising:                                                                             
        25                                                                                                         
        26                 offering at least one imaging service to a customer for selection                       
        27          prior to the customer’s attendance at an entertainment event or while                          
        28          the customer is at the entertainment event;                                                    

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