Ex Parte MERRIL et al - Page 2




         Appeal No. 2003-1858                                                       
         Application No. 09/073,871                                                 


              We reverse.                                                           
                                     BACKGROUND                                     
              Appellants’ invention relates generally to data processing            
         systems for digitally recording lectures and presentations and,            
         more specifically, to a system that allows a presenter to store            
         the contents of a lecture so that it may be broadcast across the           
         Web and capable of searching and retrieval of the lecture                  
         material.  According to Appellants, the invention provides for             
         (1) capturing the lecture and storing it into a computer memory            
         or database, (2) generating a transcript from the lecture and the          
         slides and automatically summarizing and outlining the                     
         transcripts and (3) publishing the lecture on the Internet for             
         use by client computers (specification, page 6).                           
              Representative independent claim 51 is reproduced below:              
              51. A method of capturing a live presentation, comprising             
         the steps of:                                                              
              capturing still images from a display device which displays           
         said still images for viewing by an audience during a live                 
         presentation;                                                              
              during the live presentation, detecting the change over form          
         [sic, from] one still image to another;                                    
              recording the audio portion of a speaker’s presentation               
         during a live presentation; and                                            



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