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          Appeal No. 96-2894                                                          
          Application 08/742,974                                                      

          system is "selectively operable to search said network of                   
          said servers for said server where said course resides,                     
          operable to transfer said course from said server where said                
          course resides, and selectively operable to retrieve said                   
          course from said repository if said course cannot be found                  
          at said server."                                                            
               However, claim 9's limitation "to deliver a course from                
          said at least one workstation to said repository" (emphasis                 
          added) is not found in Andersen.  Andersen delivers programs                
          from the central computer to the processor, not in the other                
          direction.  We do not find where examiner addresses this                    
          limitation.  As appellants point out with respect to a                      
          similar limitation in claim 1 (Br12):  "Very clearly, the                   
          segmented instructional program are [sic] transmitted from                  
          the cluster sub-system to the requesting processor                          
          stations."  Since Andersen does not disclose delivering a                   
          course from the processor to the central computer (which has                
          a repository), the anticipation rejection of claim 9 must be                
          reversed.                                                                   

               Claim 13                                                               


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