Appeal No. 1999-2251
Application No. 08/546,897
lines 38-39.” The examiner explains (answer, pages 3 and 4)
that:
The X client acts as sending information
specifying unit by selecting information (from
information processed in the X system) to be sent to
the PM system, by controlling what data is placed in X
CLIPBOARD (see column 4 lines 39-42, column 5 lines
52-57, column 6 lines 15-19). The X client stores
“the data associated with the selection of an item of
data, called a ‘property’” (column 7 lines 2-6), and a
selection is a “token-like mechanism” (column 4 lines
35-36).
In response to appellants’ argument (brief, page 7) that
“CCLIENT 340 does not extract a data item having state
information, to be sent to the PM server, from among data items
processed in the X server, in contrast to the function of the
extracting means recited in claim 4 of the present invention,”
the examiner responds (answer, pages 3 and 4) that:
A token is well known in the art to be a data
structure that contains state information, as well as
information to be sent (as, for example, a structure
containing a header and message body). Therefore,
Giokas teaches that the X client adds state
information (“the data associated”) which indicates
that the information (“item of data”) is to be sent to
the PM system, to the information selected.
In light of the examiner’s explanation, and the technical
dictionary definitions noted by the examiner (answer, pages 6
4
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