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Applicant:

PREX.SRCH
I. M. Speedy

Attorney Docket No.: exae-001

Serial No.:

Not Assigned

For:

Method for Accelerating Examination

Filed:

Herewith

Pre-Examination Search Document

Commissioner for Patents
P.O. Box 1450
Alexandria, VA 22313-1450
Dear Sir:
This pre-examination search statement is provided in support of the petition for
accelerated examination filed herewith.
A pre-examination search was conducted involving U.S. patents and patent
application publications, foreign patent documents and non-patent literature as indicated
below. The results of the search are provided on an Information Disclosure Statement
filed concurrently herewith.
8 (A) Pre-examination Search
US Field of Search:
Class(es)/Subclass(es) Searched:
705/14, 51;
380/28;
726/26
Date Conducted:

August 8, 2006.

Database Searches:
1) Database Service:

USPTO EAST

Files Searched:
US Patent Document Databases: US-PGPUB, USPAT
Foreign Patent Document Databases: EPO, JPO, DERWENT
IBM Technical Disclosure Bulletin database: IBM_TDB
Search Logic:
L1
L2
L3
L4
L5
L6
L7
L8
L9
L10

L11

(coupon or promotion or ad or advert$9 or banner or discount or incentive

or offer$9) near10 (id or identif$9 or code or unique or serial adj number)
(coupon or promotion or ad or advert$9 or banner or discount or incentive
or offer$9) with (select$9 or pick$9 or chose$9 or choos$9 or decide$9 or
decision or choice)
(coupon or promotion or ad or advert$9 or banner or discount or incentive
or offer$9) near10 (valid$9 or authent$9 or verify$9 or authori$9 or
compar$9 or check$9)
(redeem$9 or redemption) with (clearinghouse or clearing adj house)
(id or ident$9 or code or number or serial adj number) near5 (encrypt$9 or
crypto$9 or encod$9 or decrypt$9 or decod$9)
XYZA same (encrypt$9 or crypto$9 or encod$9 or algorithm$9 or
decrypt$9 or decod$9)
L1 same l3 same l5
(user or customer or consumer or shopper or buyer or purchaser) with
(biometric$9 or fingerprint$9 or voiceprint$9 or (finger or voice) adj
print$9 or iris)
L8 and (L1 or L2 or L3)
(coupon or promotion or ad or advert$9 or banner or discount or incentive
or offer$9) same (print$9 or hardcop$9 or hard adj (copy or copies) same
(retailer or merchant or vendor or seller or grocery or supermarket or super
adj market)
(coupon or promotion or ad or advert$9 or banner or discount or incentive
or offer$9) same (redeem$9 or redemption) same (history$9 or previous$9
or before or already or prior or preced$9 or past or earlier) same (user or
customer or consumer or shopper or buyer or purchaser)

Date Conducted:
2) Database Service:

August 8, 2006.
Dialog

Files Searched:
(Non Patent Literature) ABI/INFORM [Bell & Howell Information and
Learning], Business & Industry [Responsive Database Services, Inc.],

Business Week [The McGraw-Hill Companies Publications Online], Business

Wire [Business Wire], Computer Database [The Gale Group], Conference
Papers Index [Cambridge Scientific Abstracts], Dissertation Abstracts Online
[Bell & Howell Information and Learning], Globalbase [The Gale Group],
Inside Conferences [The British Library]INSPEC [INSPEC, Inc.], Internet &
Personal Computing Abstracts [Information Today, Inc.], The McGraw-Hill
Companies Publications Online [The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc.],
Microcomputer Software Guide Online [R. R. Bowker Company], New Product
Announcements /Plus (NPA/Plus) [The Gale Group], Newsletter Database
[The Gale Group], Financial Times Abstracts, New York Times Abstracts, San
Jose Mercury News, Wall Street Journal Abstracts, PR Newswire [PR Newswire
Association, Inc.], PROMT [The Gale Group], Softbase: Reviews, Companies,
and Products [Information Sources, Inc.], Trade & Industry Database [The Gale
Group], Wilson Applied Science and Technology Abstracts [The H.W. Wilson
Company], World Reporter [The Dialog Corporation, Dow Jones & Company,
and Financial Times Information Business Dateline [Bell & Howell Information
and Learning], Marketing & Advertising Reference Service [The Gale Group],
The Atlanta Journal/The Atlanta Constitution, The Arizona Republic/The Phoenix
Gazette (Phoenix), The Sun (Baltimore), The Boston Globe, Chicago Tribune,
The Christian Science Monitor, Detroit Free Press, The Denver Post, Houston
Chronicle, Independent (London), The Irish Times, Los Angeles Times, The
Miami Herald, Newsday and New York Newsday, The Oregonian (Portland), The
Plain Dealer (Cleveland), The Philadelphia Inquirer, Rocky Mountain News
(Denver), San Francisco Chronicle, St. Louis Post-Dispatch, St. Petersburg Times,
Times/Sunday Times (London), USA Today, Washington Post Online.
Search Logic:
S1

(coupon or promotion or ad or advert? or banner or discount or incentive

or offer?) (10n) (id or identif? or code or unique or
serial(w)number)
S2
(coupon or promotion or ad or advert? or banner or discount or incentive
or offer?) (10n) (select? or pick? or chose? or choos? or decide? or
decision or choice)
S3
(coupon or promotion or ad or advert? or banner or discount or incentive
or offer?) (10n) (valid? or authent? or verify? or authori? or
compare? or
check?)
S4
(redeem? or redemption) (10n) (clearinghouse or clearing(w)house)
S5
(id or ident? or code or number or serial (w)number) (5n) (encrypt? or
crypto? or encod? or decrypt? or decod?)
S6
XYZA (5n) (encrypt? or crypto? or encod? or algorithm? or decrypt? or
decod?)
S7
S1 near10 S3 near10 S5
S8
(user or customer or consumer or shopper or buyer or purchaser) (10n)
(biometric? or fingerprint? or voiceprint? or (finger or voice) adj print? or
iris)

S9
S10

S11

S8 and (S1 or S2 or S3)

(coupon or promotion or ad or advert? or banner or discount or incentive
or offer?) (10n) (print? or hardcop? or hard(w)(copy or copies) (10n)
(retailer or merchant or vendor or seller or grocery or supermarket or super
(w) market)
(coupon or promotion or ad or advert? or banner or discount or incentive
or offer?) (10n) (redeem? or redemption) (10n) (histor? or previous? or
before or already or prior or preced? or past or earlier) (10n) (user or
customer or consumer or shopper or buyer or purchaser)

Date Conducted:
3) Database Service:
File Searched:

8(B)

August 8, 2006.
Google
Google Scholar (Non Patent Literature)

Search Logic:

XYZA algorithm;
XYZA encrypt;
XYZA encode

Date Conducted:

August 8, 2006.

Search Directed to the Invention

The pre-examination search was directed to the claimed invention, encompassing

all the features of the claims and giving the claims their broadest reasonable
interpretation.
8(C)

Search Directed to the Disclosure

No disclosed features that are unclaimed at this time are currently seen as features
that may be claimed later.
8(D)

Search Report from a Foreign Patent Office

No search report from a foreign patent office is provided here as the preexamination search.

8(E)

Statement of Good Faith

All statements above in support of the petition to make special are based on a
good faith belief that the search was conducted in compliance with the requirements of
this rule.

Respectfully Submitted,

/P.D.Q. Persuader/
_________________________
P.D.Q. Persuader, Reg. No. 99,999
Persuader & Associates, LLP
1234 Any Street
Washington, DC 20231
August 25, 2006