Appeal No. 2003-0646
Application No. 09/250,154
servers. To accept this interpretation, then the two recitations
of “connected to the Internet” would be redundant. Furthermore,
the interpretation that the first controlling means is connected
to the network access through the internet and that the network
access center is connected to the Web servers through the
Internet is entirely consistent with the specification.
Turning to Burns, we fail to find that Burns teaches a first
controlling means for issuing a data search request to a network
access center connected to the Internet which causes the network
access center to search and collect the desired data designated
in the first search request from a polarity of Web servers
connected to the Internet. Burns discloses an Internet service
provider (ISP 56) which acts as an intermediate between a
subscriber personal computer 58 and 60 and network 54. Burns
fails to teach a first controlling means being separated from and
connected to the network access center via the Internet and the
second control means being separated from and connected to the
network access center via another network independent of the
Internet. Therefore, we fail to find that the examiner has
provided a prima facie case.
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