Question: Kat Forrest has been a famous golf prodigy since childhood and currently enjoys phenomenal success on the professional golf tour, having won four straight major titles. Kat conceived, constructed and successfully tested a golfer's aid to help less-skilled players. Briefly, the aid includes a distance-finder that determines the precise distance from the golfer's ball to a target such as a fairway landing area or the hole. The aid obtains data concerning playing conditions (e.g., wind speed and direction, soil moisture, etc.) from a series of sensors distributed throughout a golf course. A global positioning system provides accurate positional coordinates for the ball location and the target location. A user interface allows manual input of situational data (e.g., ball in divot) and permits the user to override system settings and sensor data. The golfer's aid also includes computer memory that stores performance data calibrated to a specific golfer. In use, a digital processor determines a suggested play based on playing conditions and golfer skill level, and automatically displays information concerning the suggested play (e.g., recommended golf club and preferred line of flight for the ball). Other information can be displayed in reply to user requests. Kat comes to you in September 2001 and asks you to prepare and file a patent application on her behalf. She informs you that she has shown the golfer's aid only to her caddie and only under terms of strict confidentiality, and that she finalized the design on June 5, 2001. Her golfer's aid has not been sold or offered for sale. She also informs you that she derived the general idea for the golfer's aid, in part, from (1) an article appearing in the July 2000 edition of a golf magazine concerning a commercial distance finder and (2) a customized personal digital assistant (PDA) she saw on a store shelf while traveling in Thailand in April 2001. The distance finder has been available for sale in the United States since August 2000. The customized PDA was first offered for sale in the United States on June 8, 2001, but has not been disclosed in any publication or patent document. You prepare a patent application with claims that you believe are likely to be found patentably distinct over the commercially available distance finder and the golf magazine article, either alone or in combination. The application is filed with the USPTO on September 17, 2001. 29.  Kat's patent application includes the following incomplete independent claim 8 and complete dependent claims 9 and 10: Claim 8. An aid for assisting a golfer comprising: i) a display device; ii) an input device adapted to receive user inputs from said golfer; iii) __________________________________________________; iv) a memory for storing user specific data indicating, at least in part, a skill level for said golfer; and v) a processor which (1) obtains signals from said input device, said receiver, and said memory, (2) calculates a suggested play based at least in part on said signals from said input device, said receiver, and said memory, and (3) displays said suggested play on said display device. Claim 9. The aid of claim 8, wherein said plurality of remote devices includes multiple sensors distributed on a golf course for detecting and transmitting playing condition data. Claim 10. The aid of claim 9, wherein said plurality of remote devices further includes a global positioning system for obtaining position data. Which of the following best completes claim 8?
A. a plurality of remote devices operable to detect playing conditions and position and to generate sensor signals that indicate playing condition data and position data;
B. a plurality of remote devices, said plurality of remote devices including at least one device that indicates playing condition data and at least one device that indicates position data;
C. means for receiving playing condition data and position data transmitted by a plurality of remote devices;
D. a receiver operable to obtain data transmitted by a plurality of remote devices, said plurality of remote devices including at least one device that transmits playing condition data and at least one device that transmits position data;
(category: patent, Chinese translation: 专利)