Appeal No. 2004-1128
Application No. 10/099,121
time and transmitting the version of the electronic document
corresponding to the relative time-stamp. Claim 1 is
illustrative of the claimed invention, and it reads as follows:
1. A method for providing an electronic document, said
electronic document having multiple versions, each of said
versions having a time-stamp indicating a creation time of a
corresponding version, said method comprising the steps of:
receiving a request for one of said versions of said
electronic document, said request including a relative time-stamp
indicating a time offset from a predefined time; and
transmitting said version of said electronic document
corresponding to said relative time-stamp.
The prior art references of record relied upon by the
examiner in rejecting the appealed claims are:
Eisenberg et al. (Eisenberg) 5,504,879 Apr. 02, 1996
Morris 5,634,052 May 27, 1997
Wlaschin 5,790,848 Aug. 04, 1998
Fehskens et al. (Fehskens) 5,832,224 Nov. 03, 1998
Kisor et al. (Kisor) 5,978,847 Nov. 02, 1999
(filed Dec. 26, 1996)
Shnelvar 6,374,266 Apr. 16, 2002
(effectively filed Jul. 28, 1998)
“Building a digital library for the future” printout (Archive97),
http://archive.org, published 01/26/1997, pages 1-21.
(Archive97)
Kahle, "Archiving the Internet," issued 11/1996, pages 1-8.
Claims 1, 3, 4, 6, 8, 10, 11, 13, and 15 stand rejected
under 35 U.S.C. § 103 as being unpatentable over Archive97 in
view of Kahle and Fehskens.
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