Ex Parte NIELSEN - Page 2




          Appeal No. 2001-0331                                       Page 2           
          Application No. 09/122,982                                                  


                                     BACKGROUND                                       
               Appellant's invention relates to a method and system for               
          escrowed backup of hotelled World Wide Web sites.  An                       
          understanding of the invention can be derived from a reading of             
          exemplary claim 1, which is reproduced as follows:                          
               1.2  A method executed in a computer system for facilitating           
          storage of a backup copy of data for a client company, the                  
          computer system including a host computer system which stores a             
          native copy of data and an escrow computer system, the escrow               
          computer system including a security mechanism for preventing               
          unauthorized access to the escrow computer system from the host             
          computer system, the method comprising the steps of:                        
               using the host computer system for automatically,                      
               storing the native copy of the data in a file;                         
               converting the file into a format that can be emailed; and             
               sending the converted file to the escrow computer as an                
          email message.                                                              

               The prior art references of record relied upon by the                  
          examiner in rejecting the appealed claims are:                              
          Hoffman et al. (Hoffman)      5,613,012           March 18, 1997            
          “Pegasus For Windows”, Shareware, 1996                                      
          “Using Netscape 2" (Netscape 2), 2nd Ed.; P. 287, 330, 1995                 



               2 As noted by appellant (reply brief, pages 6 and 7), a correct copy of
          the appealed claims is appended to the reply brief.                         







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