Appeal No. 2001-1604
Application No. 08/785,912
Nielsen does, indeed, disclose a “pre-fetching” operation
but Nielsen allows a web designer to specify that an audio file
linked to a web page should be pre-fetched before the user does
anything with the page. This relates to conventional background
sounds on a web page and making sure that the entire web page,
along with its associated sound background, is available before
user input is accepted.
This is much different from the reading of an html to
identify an entry for a link which is marked for pre-loading.
But, even assuming that the sound file of Nielsen may be
considered to be a “link” which is pre-loaded, or marked for pre-
loading, upon the reading of the html associated with the sound,
there does not appear to be an “automatic” loading of the sound
file in response to identifying the link marked for pre-loading.
Even so, and assuming that Nielsen does show all of this, in the
sense that the sound background for the website is automatically
pre-loaded upon selection of the website, this still lacks any
showing by the examiner that the “automatic loading” occurs
“without said link being selected by a user of said client web
browser.” This is so because, in Nielsen, when the link is
selected, the sound associated with that link is automatically
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