Appeal No. 96-2894
Application 08/742,974
repository in the main computer would have been nonobvious.
Therefore, we find that Andersen discloses or suggests
"storing courses in a repository."
As discussed in connection with claim 9, since the
programs or parts of the instructional programs in Andersen
reside at the central computer, the cluster subsystem, and
the processor, the instructional programs are "distributed."
However, claim 1's limitation that the authoring system
is "operable to transfer courses of said courseware from
said workstation to said repository" (emphasis added)
corresponds to a similar limitation in claim 9 and 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 the examiner addresses this
limitation. As appellants point out (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), and since Abrahamson does not cure this
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