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
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