Ex Parte PALMER et al - Page 16



          Appeal No. 1998-3126                                           16           
          Application No. 08/479,569                                                  
          the rejection of claim 56 under 35 U.S.C. § 103 is affirmed.                

               We turn next to the rejection of claims 16-23, 25, 26, 29,             
          31-37, 39, 42, 43, and 51-53.  The examiner adds Bluthgen to the            
          basic combination of Ludwig, Microsoft, and Reed.  We begin with            
          claims 29, 31-37, 39, and 51-53 .  Appellants only present1                                            
          specific arguments with respect to claim 29.  Accordingly, we               
          consider claim 29 to be representative of the group.  We make               
          reference to our findings, supra, with respect to the teachings             
          of Ludwig, Reed, and Microsoft with respect to claim 54.  The               
          examiner additionally relies upon Bluthgen for a teaching of                
          audio and video files stored as separate serial packets                     
          accessible by computer workstations.                                        
               Appellants assert (brief, pages 10 and 11) that Ludwig is              
          directed to a hybrid analog/digital teleconferencing system, and            
          does not mention a particular user interface scheme.  Appellants            
          further assert (brief, page 11) that the system in Microsoft                
               is not triggered from a video teleconference                           
               application window, does not supply information                        
               concerning video teleconferencing, does not separate                   










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