Appeal 2007-0719
Application 09/731,205
for the purpose of configuring, setting up or monitoring the printer. (Finding
of fact 9.) Similarly, we have found that Sorkin teaches a client configured
in parallel with the server and the printer such that the client can
independently access the printer directly or communicate with the printer via
the server. (Findings of fact 7 through 9.)
Next, as set forth above, independent claim 1 further requires that the
document processing device controller translates job data in a format
executable by the processing device. We have found that Irie teaches a
server that translates print job data received from the client before
forwarding such print data to be executed by the printer. In light of these
findings, it is our view that the combined teachings of Sorkin and Irie
amount to the document interface controller and the document processing
device arranged in parallel with the network interface controller such that the
network interface controller can directly exchange control data with the
document processing device while the document processing device
controller translates print requests received from the network interface
controller before routing them to the document processing device.
Next, we agree with the Examiner that one of ordinary skill in the art
would have readily recognized that Irie’s teaching of converting print data at
a network server before forwarding it to the printer would help reduce the
amount of processing time at the printer. Irie’s teaching would therefore
allow print commands to be executed expeditiously once they reach the
printer. We further agree with the Examiner that neither Sorkin nor Irie
teaches away from the invention. It has been held that “[a] reference may be
said to teach away when a person of ordinary skill, upon reading the
reference, would be discouraged from following the path set out in the
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