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IV. AMENDED CLAIM 1 (note amended claim 1 is identical to claim 2 in “Example 21”)

1 (Amended). A method of distributing stock quotes over a network to a remote subscriber computer, the method comprising:

› providing a stock viewer application to a subscriber for installation on the remote subscriber computer;

› receiving stock quotes at a transmission server sent from a data source over the Internet, the transmission server comprising a microprocessor and a memory that stores the remote subscriber’s preferences for information format, destination address, specified stock price values, and transmission schedule, wherein the microprocessor

› filters the received stock quotes by comparing the received stock quotes to the specified stock price values;

› generates a stock quote alert from the filtered stock quotes that contains a stock name, stock price and a universal resource locator (URL), which specifies the location of the data source;

› formats the stock quote alert into data blocks according to said information format; and

› transmits the formatted stock quote alert over a wireless communication channel to a wireless device associated with a subscriber to a computer of the remote subscriber based upon the destination address and transmission schedule,

› wherein the alert activates the stock viewer application to cause the stock quote alert to display on the remote subscriber computer and to enable connection via the URL to the data source over the Internet when the wireless device is locally connected to the remote subscriber computer and the remote subscriber computer comes online.

 

V. WORKSHEET: AMENDED CLAIM 1

Please analyze amended claim 1 using the attached Subject Matter Eligibility Worksheet (Subject Matter Eligibility Worksheet - Abstract Idea Workshop).


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