Doc Code: PREX.SRCH

Applicant: I. M. Speedy

Attorney Docket No.: exae-001

Serial No.: Not Assigned

For: Method for Accelerating Examination

Filed: Herewith

[Pre-Examination Search Document]{.underline}

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]{.underline}

[US Field of Search]{.underline}:

Class(es)/Subclass(es) Searched:

705/14, 51;

380/28;

726/26

Date Conducted: August 8, 2006.

[Database Searches:]{.underline}

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 (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)

L2 (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)

L3 (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)

L4 (redeem\$9 or redemption) with (clearinghouse or clearing adj house)

L5 (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)

L6 XYZA same (encrypt\$9 or crypto\$9 or encod\$9 or algorithm\$9 or
decrypt\$9 or decod\$9)

L7 L1 same l3 same l5

> L8 (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)
>
> L9 L8 and (L1 or L2 or L3)
>
> L10 (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)
>
> L11 (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: August 8, 2006.

2\) Database Service: 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 S8 and (S1 or S2 or S3)
>
> S10 (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)
>
> S11 (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: August 8, 2006.

3\) Database Service: Google

File Searched: Google Scholar (Non Patent Literature)

Search Logic: XYZA algorithm;

XYZA encrypt;

XYZA encode

Date Conducted: August 8, 2006.

[8(B) Search Directed to the Invention]{.underline}

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]{.underline}

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]{.underline}

No search report from a foreign patent office is provided here as the
pre-examination search.

[8(E) Statement of Good Faith]{.underline}

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/

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