Appeal No. 1999-2057
Application 08/405,062
We agree with Appellants. The Examiner misses the point
of Appellants' argument about the facsimile machine. There is
nothing in Rae about a virtual meeting room (or other kind of
connection) persisting "independent of participants of a
meeting being connected to the network," as claimed.
As to "means responsive to the meeting room server for
effectuating connections in one or more selected media between
selected ones of the plurality of ports," in which
"connections . . . between selected ones of the . . . ports"
requires a connection between at least two ports connected to
user terminals, the closest comment we find is the assertion
with respect to claim 3 that "it is clear to see that plural
users, two or more, can interact given the instructions
received by the server" (EA8). Appellants argue that the
callers in Rae can simply access a host computer's database
and cannot meet or communicate or otherwise interact with
other callers (Br12).
We agree with Appellants. The users in Rae can only
interact with the database to receive facsimile information
and cannot interact with each other.
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