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.Page: Previous 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 NextLast modified: November 3, 2007