Appeal No. 2003-0466
Application No. 08/871,964
Claim 1 is illustrative of the claimed invention, and it
reads as follows:
1. A cyber mall system for performing an agency
selling of goods through a network, comprising:
a plurality of cyber shop clients which define cyber
shop definition information including goods information
including attributes of goods to be offered, layout
information concerning a display layout of said goods, and
cyber shop identifying information representing
identification information of each cyber shop; and
a cyber mall server for receiving said cyber shop
definition information from said cyber shop clients through
said network, correlating said goods information, said
layout information, and said cyber shop identifying
information of said received cyber shop definition
information for each cyber shop, storing the correlated
information, and in response to an access request to one of
said cyber shops from a customer client, generating a web
page for displaying said layout information corresponding to
cyber shop identification information of said requested
cyber shop, by which web page a display of the offered goods
is output to the customer client through said network.
The references relied on by the examiner are:
eShop Technology Overview, Internet address:
<http://www.eshop.com/corp/technology.html>, dated Jan. 1, 1996.
eShop In The News, Recent Press Releases, Internet address:
<http://www.eshop.com/corp/press.html>, dated Jan. 1, 1996, with
press releases dated Nov. 7, 1995, Dec. 7, 1995 and Jan. 23, 1996
discussed therein.
Claims 1 through 10 and 12 through 14 stand rejected under
35 U.S.C. § 102(a) as being anticipated by the Internet version
of eShop.
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