Appeal 2007-0723
Application 10/310,527
applications permitted navigation of these files by the use of well known
software applications and operating system file managers. One of these is an
Explorer window depicted in figure 2 as comprising not only this file
structure but the hierarchy is depicted as well. Significantly, each folder
within this hierarchy has a name and, according to the discussion at
Specification page 5, in paragraphs [015-016], the user has been known to
organize the file by name in a certain manner. This is all consistent with
standard features of the well known Windows operating system environment
of which Explorer was well known.
Thus, the feature argued by Appellants in the Brief and Reply Brief of
the absence of a teaching of a folder hierarchy was well known in the art
according to their own recognition of it. The reception in representative
independent claim 1 is a passive recitation of receiving this hierarchy from
an existing passively recited computer. As it is very clear to the reader by
now, the parsing capability of this claim and the ability to create online
image albums was also well known in the art. These are not claimed to be
done automatically by the process.
The Examiner has identified the paragraph at the bottom of column 4
of Anderson as indicating that the camera 14 in figure 1 contains computers
or processors within the camera. This is made clear in the showing in figure
3 and the discussion of this figure beginning at column 6, line 7 where it
specifically teaches that the computer/microprocessor includes an operating
system within the camera for controlling the overall functionality of the
camera. The discussion at this column and the later paragraphs indicate that
it was also well known in the art, consistent with what we have already
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