Appeal No. 1998-2093
Application No. 08/303,809
transmitting a third signal from said consumer computer to said provider
computer that said selected data has been extracted.
The examiner relies on the following reference:
Yamaoka et al. (Yamaoka) 5,214,759 May 25, 1993
Claims 1, 4-8, 12, 13, 16, 17, and 19 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 102 as
being anticipated by Yamaoka.
We refer to the Final Rejection (mailed Jan. 31, 1997) and the Examiner's Answer
(mailed Feb. 20, 1998) for a statement of the examiner's position and to the Brief (filed
Nov. 12, 1997) and the Reply Brief (filed Apr. 24, 1998) for appellants’ position with
respect to the claims which stand rejected.
OPINION
The Final Rejection sets forth, on pages 2 and 3, the 35 U.S.C. § 102 rejection of
independent claims 1, 7, and 13 as being anticipated by Yamaoka. The rejection applies
the language of instant claim 13 to the disclosure of Yamaoka, although not in the order of
the features set forth in the claim. For example, the rejection refers to “instructing the
provider computer to transfer the data to the mapped portion at the address in the shared
memory,” which paraphrases paragraph “iv” of claim 13. The rejection later refers to
“means for facilitating communication to the provider computer that the consumer
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