Appeal No. 2006-3122
Application No. 10/247,769
outside the displayed document. Therefore, the number of accesses displayed in
Fig. 4 of Takatori includes information regarding selection of the link in the
displayed document [id.].
We will sustain the examiner’s rejection of the independent claims.
Although the counts displayed adjacent to the web site links in Fig. 4 of Takatori
correspond to total web site accesses, the scope and breadth of the claim
language does not preclude such a global count.
Significantly, the claims do not specify that the links were selected from
the viewable document, or that the links comprise only those specific paths (i.e.,
IP addresses) pointed to by the hyperlinks displayed in the viewable document.
As the examiner indicates, the total number of web site accesses in Fig. 4 of
Takatori includes link accesses that occur both within and outside the displayed
document. We find that such internal and global accesses comprise “links” to the
web sites giving the term “links” its broadest reasonable interpretation.
Therefore, the number of accesses displayed in Fig. 4 of Takatori includes
information regarding selection of the links (i.e., the number of times that each
link has been selected both locally and globally).
Furthermore, Takatori expressly teaches counting the number of times
that a user clicks a link displayed in the browser as part of its update capability.
For example, when a user clicks any displayed link, the browser notifies the
server, and the server, in turn, increases the number of site accesses accordingly
(i.e., by one). The server then ranks the sites found in the search by the number
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