Appeal No. 97-3665
Application 08/280,039
The Invention
The invention is directed to a method and system for
sending data over a communication network to authorized
individuals. Claims 1, 17, 26, 31 and 37 are independent
claims. Representative claim 1 is reproduced below:
1. A method of delivering data over a
communication network, comprising the steps of:
generating a partially-degraded version of the
data by altering a portion of the data to reduce its
perceived quality when utilized;
providing the partially-degraded version of the
data over the network to a customer at a user
terminal connected to the network; and
providing a higher quality version of the data
to the customer over the network if the customer is
entitled to receive the higher quality version.
Opinion
We affirm-in-part.
Our affirmance of the rejection of some claims is based
only on the arguments presented by appellant in his appeal
brief. Arguments which could have been raised but not
actually raised and presented in the briefs are not before us,
are not at issue, and are considered as waived. We do not
undertake to re-examine the application ab initio.
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