Appeal No. 2003-1112
Application No. 09/520,892
Appellants’ invention relates to a distributed computing document recognition
and processing. An understanding of the invention can be derived from a reading of
exemplary claim 1, which is reproduced below.
1. A distributed computing system for processing document data at a
processing location remote from users, comprising:
a network server which receives documents transmitted to said
processing location from at least one user terminal; and
an application server connected to said network server to receive
documents transmitted thereto, and which distributes a portion of said
documents responsive to one or more document processing applications
at said processing location which convert the received documents into
one or more electronic document formats.
The prior art of record relied upon by the examiner in rejecting the appealed
claims are as follows:
Chong 5,175,684 Dec. 29, 1992
Yamauchi et al. (Yamauchi) 5,701,497 Dec. 23, 1997
Mitchell et al. (Mitchell) 5,963,966 Oct. 05, 1999
Claims 1-4, 9, 10, 12, 13, 17, 22, 29, 31, 32, 36, 37, 39, 40, 42, 52, 55, 60, 64,
and 65 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 102 as being anticipated by Yamauchi.
Claims 5-8, 11, 16, 18, 23-28, 30, 351, 38, 41, 43, 44, 53, 54, and 56-59 stand rejected
under 35 U.S.C. § 103 as being unpatentable over Yamauchi in view of Mitchell.
1 We note that the examiner has not indicated a grounds of rejection for dependent claims 33
and 34. Since claim 35 depends from claim 34 which depends from claim 33, we will assume that the
examiner intended to reject these claims under 35 USC § 103 with claim 35.
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