Appeal No. 96-0712 Page 10
Application No. 08/015,756
lines via a modem. Clearly, Herbst uses a telephone system for
transmission of a fax.
The examiner employs Chen for the teaching of
communications details between a facsimile store-and-forward
computer and a central server computer. As explained by the
examiner, at page 13 of the answer, the teachings of Herbst and
Chen are combined so that the details of the communication, as
taught by Chen, are applied to the communication between
central server 14 (fax controller) and the facsimile store-and-
forward service computer (4') of Herbst. Thus, it is not
persuasive for appellant to contend [brief-page 6] that Chen
does not disclose a system for transmitting fax documents to a
file associated with a particular user in a networked computer
system such that the fax message can be retrieved from a
computer in the networked computer system because the examiner
relies on Herbst for this teaching.
Appellant takes issue with the examiner’s characterization
of Herbst’s fax controller 14 as a “networked computer system”
as recited in claims 12 and 13. As the examiner explains, at
page 19 of the answer, facsimile controller 14 of Herbst has a
modem, a microprocessor, a RAM and an I/O device connecting bus
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