Appeal No. 2001-1528
Application No. 08/998,661
BACKGROUND
The invention relates to a method and system for retrieving and acting on
information elements in a computer network. Claim 1 is reproduced below.
1. A method executed in a computer network to facilitate acting on
information elements, the computer network including at least a client computer
and server computer, the method comprising the steps of:
sorting a list of information element references so that the list is ranked
from a first information element reference with a highest priority to a last
information element reference with a lowest priority;
retrieving from the server computer to the client computer, the information
elements in ranked order, and
acting on retrieved information elements in the order received.
The examiner relies on the following references:
Byrd, Jr. et al. (Byrd) 5,826,260 Oct. 20, 1998
(filed Dec. 11, 1995)
Claims 1, 9-11, 19-21, and 29-34 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 102 as being
anticipated by Byrd.
Claims 2, 12, and 22 have been allowed.
Claims 3-8, 13-18, and 23-28 have been canceled.
We refer to the Final Rejection (Paper No. 8) and the Examiner's Answer (Paper
No. 16) for a statement of the examiner's position and to the Brief (Paper No. 15) for
appellant’s position with respect to the claims which stand rejected.
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