Appeal 2007-0244
Application 09/777,500
This is a decision on appeal under 35 U.S.C. § 134 from the
Examiner's final rejection of claims 9-15, 18, 20-21, 23, 33-38, and 45-50.
Claims 1, 2, 24-32, 39-44, and 51-57 have been withdrawn from
consideration. Claims 3, 4, 6-8, 16, 17, 19, and 22 have been canceled.
We AFFIRM.
BACKGROUND
Appellants’ invention relates to a system for distributed media
network and meta data server. An understanding of the invention can be
derived from a reading of exemplary claim 9, which is reproduced below.
9. A method for servicing media data requests in a meta
data server, the method comprising:
receiving a media data request from a client, the
request received by a meta data server;
retrieving meta data associated with the media data
request from a meta data database, the meta data identifying a
media data server having the requested media data, the media
data server being separate and independently operated from the
meta data server, including without continuous observation by,
and communication with the meta data server; and
transmitting the meta data to the client for use by the
client to locate the media data server to retrieve the media data.
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