Appeal No. 2001-0962 Page 3
Application No. 07/687,276
Opinion
In reaching our decision in this appeal, we have given
careful consideration to the appellants’ specification and
claims, to the applied prior art references, and to the
respective positions articulated by the appellant and the
examiner. As a consequence of our review, we make the
determinations which follow.
On page 4 of the answer, the examiner details his view of
how Sanchez-Frank anticipates the subject matter of claim 1. The
appellants argue that Sanchez-Frank does not disclose (1) a
user configuration file and (2) the utilization of a previously
constructed configuration file which is then altered and utilized
for a newly established programmable workstation within the
network.
In regard to a user configuration file, appellants argue
that a user configuration file is a file which is the sum of
the system’s internal and external components and that the
configuration files disclosed in Sanchez-Frank relate to network
connections not internal and external components of the
individual workstations.
However, we note that the Microsoft Press Computer
Dictionary, which is attached to the brief, defines a
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