Appeal No. 2001-2381
Application 09/025,155
within a local network site of a computer network when access
from said local network site to a remote network site is delayed.
Representative claim 28 is reproduced as follows:
28. A method for automatically swapping application tasks
running within a local network site of a computer network when
access from said local network site to a remote network site is
delayed, said method comprising:
initiating, from a communications application at a local
network site, a link to a remote network site while multi-tasking
applications are simultaneously running at said local network
site;
initiating retrieval of data from said remote network site,
in response to initiating said link;
automatically switching focus from said communications
application to one of said multi-tasking applications, in
response to initiating said link;
determining, after focus has been switched from said
communications application, that said data has been retrieved;
and
automatically providing user notification that said data has
been retrieved, in response to said determination.
The examiner relies on the following reference:
Slotznick 6,011,537 Jan. 04, 2000
(filed Jan. 27, 1998)
Claims 28-48 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 103(a). As
evidence of obviousness the examiner offers Slotznick taken
alone.
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