Ex Parte Nakano et al - Page 5



                Appeal 2007-0580                                                                               
                Application 09/839,000                                                                         
                      The obviousness rejection of claims 13 and 14 is not separately                          
                argued and, thus, these claims fall together with the claims on which they                     
                depend.  The rejection of claims 13 and 14 is affirmed.                                        

                Claims 1 and 3-6                                                                               
                      The limitation at dispute in claim 1 is "in the event of an update [of                   
                the virtual channels], only updated portions of a Web page corresponding to                    
                the virtual channel are downloaded."  The Specification describes that "[i]n                   
                the event of an update, however, the logic moves to block 60 to download                       
                the entire new Web page or pages that establish the virtual channel or, more                   
                preferably to download only the changed portions thereof (page 11).                            
                      Appellants argue that Greer does not download only changed portions                      
                of web pages (Br. 4).  "Instead, it generates an alert when a web [page is]                    
                changed beyond a threshold, but the entire page is downloaded, col. 3,                         
                lines 18-19" (Br. 4).  It is argued that "Claim 1 requires that only the updated               
                portions of the page be downloaded all the time" (Br. 5).                                      
                      The Examiner states that "Greer discloses that a user can establish in                   
                the event of an update to a Web Page via a user changeable value of an                         
                object quotient (quantitative assessment of changes to the object) to update                   
                the object or that only updated portions of a Web page are downloaded                          
                (Column 7, lines 33-50)" (Answer 11-12).  The Examiner finds that "[s]ince                     
                Greer discloses enabling one or more objects including Ad Banner, GIF,                         
                Button (Figure 9, 620, Object 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, of [sic, or] 6) of the Web page                   


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