Appeal No. 1997-3433
Application 08/395,548
Large OBject or "BLOB" where "BLOB's [sic] typically comprise
items such as very large graphic data, OLE annotations or
files to be transferred" (col. 13, lines 63-65).
Thessin discloses transferring OLE annotations, but,
aside from the agent structure in figure 2, does not disclose
the mechanism for transferring an OLE annotation from a first
computer to a second computer. Nevertheless, the Examiner
finds (FR4-5):
Thessin et al. explicitly teach the well-known OLE
protocol [col. 8, lines 35[-]47, col. 9, lines 13 - 23],
hence, Thessin et al. inherently teach the following
steps of:
! receiving notification that the first application
has submitted material to the clipboard on the first
computer and obtaining a list of available formats for
said submitted material [col. 8, lines 35[-]47, col. 9,
lines 13 - 23];
! transmitting the format(s) corresponding to Object
Embedding to the second computer [col. 8, lines 35[-]47,
col. 9, lines 13 - 23];
! submitting the format(s) corresponding to Object
Embedding to the clipboard at the second computer for
selection by the second application [col. 8, lines 35[-
]47, col. 9, lines 13 - 23].
However, Thessin et al. do not explicitly disclose using
the clipboard to transmit and submit the format(s)
corresponding to Object Embedding for selection by an
application.
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