Ex Parte HEALEY - Page 6




         Appeal No. 2002-0119                                                       
         Application No. 09/015,713                                                 

         different sections by signaling the start and the end of each              
         section in which sub-sections using the same convention may be             
         marked such that the sub-sections are kept nested within the               
         sections (col. 5, lines 7-34).                                             
              Hamilton, on the other hand, discloses a client/server                
         computer for handling method calls from object request brokers             
         that use various communication protocols (col. 1, lines 8-12).             
         Each method call may be encoded with a different communication             
         protocol which is used by server computer to execute the method            
         corresponding to an index value assigned to each call according            
         to its method descriptor (col. 1, line 56 through col. 2, line             
         8).  Additionally, Hamilton describes operation table 100 in               
         Figure 4 which includes index values that are linked to subset             
         lists which, in turn, include an IDL short name, and IDL long              
         name, a repository identification, an alternate identification,            
         etc. (col. 6, lines 46-57).  Thus, although we agree with the              
         Examiner that some kind of short name and long name protocols are          
         recognized by Hamilton, we do not find any specific teaching in            
         the reference that relates to the claimed forming the main and             
         the associated portions having anchor tags for displaying the              
         text appearing in the long-name and short-name fields.                     
              As discussed above, Schumacher marks a structured document            
         for accessing different sections regardless of what part of the            
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