Appeal No. 1997-1874 Application No. 08/134,025 system thereby allowing automatic loading and unloading of the media service providers." However, nowhere do the references suggest such a reason for combining. Further, although the portion of Dinallo relied upon by the examiner may suggest that the media service manager opens and loads needed media drivers, it fails to teach the automatic closing and unloading of unneeded media drivers. Thus, the examiner has failed to establish a prima facie case of obviousness, and we cannot sustain the rejection of claim 1 and its dependents, claims 2 though 6 and 9. Claim 10 includes in method format the same limitation of automatically loading and opening media service providers needed for the second channel but not for the first and automatically unloading and closing media service providers needed for the first channel but not for the second. Accordingly, we will reverse the rejection of claim 10 and its dependents, claims 11 through 15 and 18, for the same reasons as above. Claims 19 and 25 parallel claims 1 and 10, respectively, reciting substantially the same elements or steps but in a server rather than in a client. Thus, claims 19 and 25 7Page: Previous 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 NextLast modified: November 3, 2007