Appeal No. 1999-2057
Application 08/405,062
We agree with Appellants. The server 73 is connected to
and receives commands from the control console 71, not the
user terminals (element 100 in Fig. 1). As previously noted,
nodes 75 in Fig. 8 are not user terminals. The server cannot
establish a virtual meeting room, much less a controllably
persistent virtual meeting room, because the users merely
receive graphic and textual facsimile data stored on the nodes
75: they do not communicate with other users. There is no
attempt to simulate a virtual meeting room where users can
interact.
As to "the virtual meeting room being controllably
persistent such that it can exist in the network independent
of participants of a meeting being connected to the network,"
we do not find where the Examiner addresses this limitation.
Appellants argue that there is no suggestion of "persistence"
in Rae, because Rae is a real-time access system where once
the caller hangs up, the apparatus in Rae loses everything
about the call (Br12). The Examiner responds that there is
nothing in the claims about persistence based on a caller
receiving data from a facsimile machine (EA16).
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