Appeal No. 2001-1057
Application No. 08/741,470
Taking instant independent claim 5 as exemplary, Anupam discloses a technique
for obtaining and exchanging information on the World Wide Web, wherein a user
begins a chat session and other collaborators may join in. The thrust of Anupam’s
invention is to allow collaborators with different browsers to create or join a collaborative
browsing session. Controllers in a server system communicate with surrogates in the
collaborators’ computers, the surrogates allowing systems with different browsers to
communicate. Collaborators in Anupam’s system are able to move from one uniform
resource locator (“URL”) to another to browse information in a synchronous manner.
Moreover, the collaborators can interactively communicate with one another in real time
through their respective surrogates during a session. Thus, it is clear that Anupam
discloses a system for synchronizing browse and chat functions on a computer
connected to a computer network wherein browser and chat regions are established on
a display device. The examiner points to column 4, lines 12-17, of Anupam for the
teaching of receiving a first document from a first document address through the
computer network and, in response thereto, displaying the first document in the browser
region. The examiner points to column 4, lines 30-36, of the reference for the teaching
of “receiving chat content....” Finally, the examiner points to column 4, lines 18-26, and
surrogate 153 and controller 111, of the reference for the teaching of “receiving request
originating from the chat session...receiving a second document...and displaying the
second document in the browser region.”
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