Appeal 2007-0731
Application 09/899,454
1 INVENTION
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3 The invention is directed to a method of presenting bookmarks with a web
4 browser. The system provides information relating to the activity rate of a
5 particular bookmarked web site when the user views their bookmarks. This way
6 the user can choose to access the web site at a different time if there is significant
7 activity. See page 3 of Appellants’ Specification. Claim 1 is representative of the
8 invention and reproduced below:
9 1. In a World Wide Web (Web) communication network with user
10 access via a plurality of data processor controlled interactive receiving
11 display stations for displaying received hypertext documents of at least one
12 display page containing text and images transmitted from sources on the
13 Web, a system for bookmarking of selected received Web documents
14 comprising:
15 means associated with one of said receiving display stations for
16 bookmarking of selected received Web documents to thereby store at said
17 receiving display station, direct links to the sources of said Web documents;
18 means for tracking the rates of said bookmarked Web documents
19 transmitted from each of said sources during daily time cycles; and
20 means at said receiving display station for displaying in association
21 with a displayed list of bookmarks for Web documents, data on the rates of
22 transmission of said bookmarked documents at the time of said display.
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25 REFERENCES
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27 The references relied upon by the Examiner are:
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29 Burke US 6,032,162 Feb. 29, 2000
30 Pitkow US 2002/0016786 A1 Feb. 7, 2002
31 (filed Dec. 4, 2000)
32 Ryan U.S. 6,421,675 B1 Jul. 16, 2002
33 (filed Jul. 15, 1998)
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