Appeal 2007-0434
Application 10/041,207
Those skilled in the art also would have understood that assigning a
unique identifier to an image would have facilitated its individual handling.
We agree with the Examiner that the need to handle an image individually,
and the fact that a unique URI or URL would have facilitated individual
handling thereof, would have prompted a person of ordinary skill in the
relevant field to assign an URI or URL to individual images.
The Appellants' aforementioned argument that assigning an URI or
URL to individual images would frustrate Squilla's categorization or images
appears to be based on the premise that combining teachings of Squilla and
Hobbes would have necessitated replacing Squilla's selection categories with
the URIs or URLs. To the contrary, the Examiner has proposed to employ
the URIs or URLs "as another mean[s]," (Answer 15), to identify images. In
other words, the images would be identified both individually by URIs or
URLs and collectively by categories. Because the categories would be
supplemented (by the URIs or URLs), rather than eliminated, a user would
still be able to use the selection categories to categories images. Therefore,
we affirm the obviousness rejections of claims 9, 10, 12-16, 22, 24-27, and
31-33.
IV. ADDITIONAL OBSERVATIONS
Our reversal of the rejections of claims 1, 3-8, 11, 17-21, 23, and 28-
30 was based on the Examiner's inability to show that Squilla assigns to a
digital image an identifier that is unique to a network. As mentioned
regarding claims 9, 10, 12-16, 22, 24-27, and 31-33, however, a person of
ordinary skill in the relevant field would have been prompted to assign an
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