Appeal No. 2001-1317
Application No. 08/925,845
document is transmitted and received using a facsimile protocol
and the portion of the facsimile that comprises the Java program
is identified as being associated with the Java program and the
associated code is then acquired using the received optically-
encoded data. The facsimile data is then displayed and the Java
program is executed in connection with the portion of the
displayed facsimile with which it is associated.
Claim 3 is reproduced as follows:
3. A method for receiving and processing data to provide
executable content to portions of a facsimile document
comprising:
receiving data using a facsimile reception protocol, said
received data having one or more portions associated with virtual
machine instruction code;
identifying the portions of the received facsimile data
associated with the virtual machine instruction code;
using the received facsimile data to acquire the associated
virtual machine instruction code;
displaying the received facsimile data, and
executing the virtual machine instruction code in connection
with the portion of the displayed facsimile data associated
therewith.
The examiner relies on the following reference:
Bobo, II [Bobo] 5,675,507 Oct. 7, 1997
(filed Apr. 28, 1995)
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