Appeal No. 1997-3433
Application 08/395,548
organization of an agent is shown in figure 2. At least four
different types of "annotations" can be used to exchange
information during the conference (col. 8, lines 19-47):
(1) drawing annotations; (2) graphic annotations; (3) textual
annotations; and (4) OLE annotations. The Examiner relies on
the OLE annotation, which is described at column 8,
lines 35-47:
One other annotation which may be used in one embodiment
of the present invention is the OLE annotation using the
Object Linking and Embedding (OLE) protocol available
from Microsoft Corporation of Redmond, Wash. OLE
annotations may reference other "objects" created and/or
maintained by other application programs and which may be
either linked or embedded using OLE. Each of these
annotations is stored as an object under an "annotation"
classification which is associated with objects in the
page classification. FIG. 5 illustrates the
classification for objects used in one embodiment of the
present invention.
The Examiner also points to Thessin, column 9, lines 13-23:
One other annotation which may be used in one embodiment
of the present invention is the CCOLEAnnotation class 520
which is part of the COLEDocument classification 503 for
performing object linking and embedding using the Object
Linking and Embedding (OLE) protocol available from
Microsoft Corporation of Redmond, Wash. Annotations may,
thus, be references to "objects" created and/or
maintained by other application programs and which may be
either linked or embedded using OLE.
Although not mentioned by the Examiner, Thessin describes
transferring a type of data object known as a very Binary
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