Appeal No. 1999-2251
Application No. 08/546,897
The disclosed invention relates to an information sending
unit and to an information receiving unit in an information
processing system. In the sending unit, state information is
added to an extracted information item that is to be sent, and
in the receiving unit, a receiving means receives the
information item to be sent and information required for
transmission to another information processing system.
Claim 4 is illustrative of the claimed invention, and it
reads as follows:
4. An information sending unit comprising:
extracting means for extracting an information item to
which state information has been added by a sending information
specifying unit from information items processed in a first
information processing system which is a closed system operating
asynchronously with respect to a second information processing1
system, the state information indicating that the information
item is to be sent; and
sending means for sending the information item extracted by
said extracting means to a predetermined communication system.
The reference relied on by the examiner is:
Giokas et al. (Giokas) 5,313,581 May 17,
1994
1It appears that appellants’ disclosure lacks written
description support for a system operating “asynchronously”
with respect to another system.
2
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