EXHIBIT A
Case 2:04-cv-00400-PGR
Document 190-2
Filed 04/27/2007
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` 077 File History
· April 16, 1999 - Response to Office Action
Claim 1 amended to include "automatically". 4 "... a discriminator contained in the processing terminal determines whether that card is a credit card or a debit card purely on the basis of data recorded on the card." (emp asis added ) 3 "A particular advantage of this invention, is that all,of the initial discrimination steps occur automatically. -^ Savar reference was discussed - "There is no such teaching in Savar since only manual input of the cardtype is described by Savar. · Demonstration of T8 and ICE 6000 - onl manu al input of y a credit/debit card type ' ^s provided for by T8 and ICE 6000 terminals.
Case 2:04-cv-00400-PGR
Document 190-2
Filed 04/27/2007
Page 2 of 2