Appeal No. 1999-2057
Application 08/405,062
machine/telephone system 100 as in Fig. 1 which attaches to
the public switched telephone network 77 in Fig. 8. The nodes
merely receive calls from a user, perform call handling, voice
processing, and facsimile transmission back to the user. It
is possible that the user connection to the public switched
telephone network are multimedia ports in the sense of
handling both data (graphic and textual facsimile data) and
audio (voice), two kinds of media, but this interpretation is
not set out by the Examiner.
As to "at least one meeting room server connected to the
ports for creating an electronic circuit configuration in the
network representing a controllably persistent virtual meeting
room in response to commands from any of the user terminals,"
the Examiner relies on server 73 in Fig. 8 as the meeting room
server connected to the ports (nodes 1-n) (EA7). Appellants
argue that the servers in Rae only provide data and processing
instructions and cannot establish or maintain controllably
persistent virtual meeting rooms (Br11). Appellants further
argue that there is no evidence in Rae that callers can send
commands to the server (Br10).
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