Appeal No. 1997-3433
Application 08/395,548
The Examiner relies on the following prior art
references:
Thessin et al. (Thessin) 5,452,299 September 19,
1995
(filed October 14,
1993)
Object Linking & Embedding, Microsoft Corporation,
November 6, 1991, pages 1-45 (hereinafter "Microsoft
OLE").
Orfali et al. (Orfali), Client/Server Survival Guide
with OS/2, Van Nostrand Reinhold, 1994, pages 745-753.
Claims 1-10 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 103 as being
unpatentable over Thessin, Microsoft OLE, and Orfali.
We refer to the Final Rejection (Paper No. 7) (pages
referred to as "FR__") and the Examiner's Answer (Paper
No. 15) (pages referred to as "EA__") for a statement of the
Examiner's position and to the Appeal Brief (Paper No. 14)
(pages referred to as "Br__") for Appellants' arguments
thereagainst.
OPINION
Thessin relates to electronic teleconferencing and, more
specifically, to mechanisms for communicating and
synchronizing data among a plurality of software agents, each
agent being on a computer of a participant. The software
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