Appeal No. 2001-1057
Application No. 08/741,470
transaction-based protocol which does not retain any information from one document
transfer to the next. Since every additional document must be transferred by opening a
new HTTP connection, requesting the document, delivering the document and closing
the connection, Anupam cannot teach a real time, continuously open bi-directional
communications chat region, as recited in claim 6.
It is clear, from column 4, lines 30-32, of Anupam that collaborators are
interactively communication, i.e., chatting, in “real time.” Since the chat region in
Anupam is a “real time continuously open bi-directional communication chat region,” as
claimed, appellants’ argument is not persuasive. Moreover, the limitation added by
claim 6 relates to the “chat region,” not the browser region. Accordingly, appellants’
argument relating to opening different documents by opening a new HTTP connection
is not understood since it does not relate to the claim limitation of claim 6 regarding the
chat region being a real time continuously open bi-directional communication chat
region. Not only does Anupam clearly disclose this claim limitation but the property of a
chat region being in real time and continuously open and bi-directional has been known
for many years to every user of a chat room on the World Wide Web.
With regard to the limitation of the chat region being “embedded in the browser
region,” the examiner explains, quite reasonably, in our view, that while Anupam does
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