US PATENT SUBCLASS 705 / 1
AUTOMATED ELECTRICAL FINANCIAL OR BUSINESS PRACTICE OR MANAGEMENT ARRANGEMENT

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705 /   HD   DATA PROCESSING: FINANCIAL, BUSINESS PRACTICE, MANAGEMENT, OR COST/PRICE DETERMINATION

1AUTOMATED ELECTRICAL FINANCIAL OR BUSINESS PRACTICE OR MANAGEMENT ARRANGEMENT {13}
2  DF  .~> Health care management (e.g., record management, ICDA billing) {1}
4  DF  .~> Insurance (e.g., computer implemented system or method for writing insurance policy, processing insurance claim, etc.)
5  DF  .~> Reservation, check-in, or booking display for reserved space {1}
7  DF  .~> Operations research {3}
12  DF  .~> Voting or election arrangement
13  DF  .~> Transportation facility access (e.g., fare, toll, parking)
14  DF  .~> Distribution or redemption of coupon, or incentive or promotion program
15  DF  .~> Restaurant or bar
16  DF  .~> Including point of sale terminal or electronic cash register {9}
26  DF  .~> Electronic shopping (e.g., remote ordering) {1}
28  DF  .~> Inventory management {1}
30  DF  .~> Accounting {4}
35  DF  .~> Finance (e.g., banking, investment or credit) {4}

DEFINITION

Classification: 705/1

AUTOMATED ELECTRICAL FINANCIAL OR BUSINESS PRACTICE OR MANAGEMENT ARRANGEMENT:

(under the class definition) Subject matter wherein an electrical apparatus and its corresponding methods perform the data processing operations, in which there is a significant change in the data or for performing calculation operations wherein the apparatus or method is uniquely designed for or utilized in the practice, administration, or

management of an enterprise, or in the processing of financial data.

(1) Note. The term "arrangement" as used in this and its indented subclasses refers to either a device or to a method of use of a device for performing the indicated process. Further, a device may be an assemblage of components at a single location or may have its several components at geos:graphically distinct locations, i.e., a network.

(2) Note. The term "enterprise" as used in this and its indented subclasses is intended to include governmental and nonprofit organizations, as well as conventional business organizations.

(3) Note. The arrangements in this and its indented subclasses are generally used for problems relating to administration of an organization, commodities, financial transactions, or recreation.

(4) Note. Mere designation of an arrangement as a "business machine" or a document as a "business form" or "business chart" without any particular business function will not cause classification in this or its indented subclasses.

SEE OR SEARCH CLASS

235, Registers, 379, 383 and 385 for a system having a detail of a record-sensing device in combination with a system utilized for banking, determining credit or maintaining an inventory, and having no more than a nominal recitation of a computer or data processing arrangement. Note that a nominally claimed record or card sensor is considered to be a peripheral of the data processing system.

364, Electrical Computers and Data Processing Systems,

400+, for a device which either controls the processing of, or is responsive to a physical or mechanical condition of a product or material.

379, Telephonic Communications,

112+, for a computer controlled telephone charge determining arrangement; subclass 284 for a processor controlled central switching arrangement.

463, Amusement Devices: Games,

1+, when there is a recitation (according to the (3) Note of Section III of the Class 705 Definition) of a method or apparatus for moving or processing information specified as game or contest information, especially subclasses 16+, where game or contest information relates to a chance-type game (i.e., one that involves an award or prize based upon the

occurrence of a chance happening or event; e.g., lottery, keno, slot machine, etc.). However, in order for the specified information to be considered significant for placement in Class 463, there must be significant game processing. For example, the mere printing of a selected lottery number is not significant unless there is also included an element of a game for Class 463 (e.g., a determination of whether the number is a winning number, such as by lot matching, a determination of an award or prize value associated with a number, etc.]. A "coupon" or price adjustment given to a patron based upon an item purchased or another predetermined or nonrandom criteria is not considered to be a chance event or happening appropriate for Class 463.