Appeal No. 2001-2003
Application 08/939,185
filed. Our review of this information indicates it is remarkably
expansive in nature as to what various sources of data and
identifiers may comprise yet, at the same time, Lopresti clearly
appears to us to anticipate even some of them to the extent
broadly recited in the representative claim 43 on appeal. The
overall context of Lopresti is consistent with what appellants
regard as the background of the invention: there is a convergence
of computer systems and transitional entertainment systems as
recognized at page 7 of the principal brief on appeal. Column 1
of Lopresti indicates in part the availability of "up to 500
channels of programming, and a variety of on-demand services,
including home shopping and banking, interactive games and
entertainment, multimedia libraries and full access to the
Internet." (Column 1, lines 19-22). The paragraph bridging
columns 6 and 7 of Lopresti indicates that much of the video user
environment is implemented in software, such as that depicted in
Figure 6, which "could also be downloaded to random access
memories RAM 74 and RAM 86 over various transmission media,
including but not limited to, standard telephone lines, fiber
optic cable, or the television cable that also delivers the video
signals."
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