Appeal No. 1998-0946
Application No. 08/365,269
requested service are determined, i.e., all that is necessary
for the requested update. The results of the requested
service are then provided over the network back to the
customer at the remote location, i.e., the updated version of
the software is sent back to the customer.
However, claim 1, as does each of the independent claims,
requires that the request is received “with optional service
incorporation instructions of the remote location customer.”
Kirouac provides for no such “optional service incorporation
instructions.” At the central computer site in Kirouac,
software patch version numbers are compared and the requester
is provided with the most recent patch version available. The
customer is not permitted to include “optional service
incorporation instructions,” as claimed.
The examiner recognizes this deficiency and relies on Cox
for the teaching of such “optional service incorporation
instructions” pointing to Figure 3 of Cox where “Install”,
“Configure”, “Remove”, “Exit” and “Help” buttons are shown.
The examiner states [answer-page 5] that these buttons
comprise the claimed “optional service incorporation
instructions” and that it would have been obvious to combine
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