Appeal 2007-2978
Application 10/744,130
Claim 1, reproduced below, is representative of the subject matter on
appeal.
1. Method for transferring large supplier catalogs in a data transmission
system including the lnternet network, a marketplace site able to be
addressed through said lnternet network, a plurality of customers connected
to said lnternet network and a plurality of suppliers connected to said
lnternet network, each of said suppliers having a catalog file of available
goods to be supplied to any one of said customers;
said method comprising the following steps:
a) Requesting by one of said suppliers the transfer of its catalog file to said
marketplace site through a business to business (B2B) gateway using a
catalog control protocol,
b) Transferring said catalog file to said marketplace site through a catalog
gateway using the catalog transfer protocol, the supplier segmenting the
catalog file into a plurality of sequential segments and sending the catalog
file segments to the catalog gateway, wherein each catalog file segment is
numbered and includes a flag denoting whether or not the catalog segment is
the last catalog file segment, the catalog gateway acknowledging each
catalog file segment received from the supplier, the catalog gateway
reassembling the catalog file segments into the catalog file and storing the
catalog file in a local storage,
c) Aggregating said catalog file received from said supplier to a general
catalog to provide an updated general catalog, and
d) Publishing the updated general catalog onto a storefront web site so that
any one of said customers can view the goods of said supplier.
Claims 1-9 are rejected under 35 U.S .C. § 103(a) as being unpatentable over
Yamazoe (US Patent Application publication No. 2001/0032148 A1) in view of
Vittal (US Patent No. US 6,907,401).
We REVERSE.
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