Appeal No. 2001-1604
Application No. 08/785,912
in the brief have not been considered and are deemed to be waived
[see 37 CFR 1.192 (a)].
With regard to independent claim 1, the examiner asserts
that Nielsen taught the web browser with a means for reading a
first html to identify an entry for a link which is marked for
pre-loading, by reviewing the html to locate a sound attribute,
citing column 2, lines 8-9, and column 3, lines 64-65. The
examiner further identifies column 2, lines 9-12, and column 4,
lines 58-59 and 63-64, of Nielsen as teaching the automatic
loading of another html, responsive to identification of a link
marked for pre-loading.
Curiously, although the examiner identifies portions of
Nielsen as teaching means, responsive to identification of said
link marked for pre-loading, for automatically loading into a
memory device local to said client web browser, said automatic
loading occurring without said link being selected by a user
(page 4, first paragraph, of the supplemental answer), in the
very next paragraph, the examiner asserts that “Nielson [sic,
Nielsen] does not specifically teach pre-loading html.” It seems
a bit awkward, and somewhat contradictory, to assert that a
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