Appeal No. 1997-4018
Application No. 08/668,716
means for sending a response signal from the facsimile
machine to the computer when the facsimile machine receives an
instruction command from the computer, whereby operation of
the facsimile machine is supervisable by the computer,
a memory for storing data,
means for calling the remote facsimile machine upon an
instruction command from the computer,
means for receiving image data from the remote facsimile
machine,
means for storing the image data received from the remote
facsimile machine in the memory,
means for transferring the stored image data to the
computer in accordance with the instruction command received
from the computer, the stored image data comprising at least
one of image data received from the remote facsimile machine
and stored in a memory and image data scanned by a scanner and
stored in a memory, and
means for transferring data between the computer and the
remote facsimile machine in response to a command received
from the computer.
The prior art reference of record relied upon by the
examiner in rejecting the appealed claims is:
Lin 4,991,200 Feb. 05,
1991
Claims 13 through 27 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 103
as being unpatentable over Lin.
Reference is made to the Examiner's Answer (Paper No. 27,
mailed August 22, 1997) for the examiner's complete reasoning
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