Appeal No. 2001-1604
Application No. 08/785,912
selected and “opened” along with the link, or website. It does
not appear that, in Nielsen, a user can select a link without
also selecting the sound file associated therewith. Instant
claim 1 provides that an html link, along with its associated
graphics, is automatically loaded and that, even though it is
automatically loaded, a user need not select, i.e., need not
view, that loaded html link.
The trouble with Nielsen, as it relates to instant claim 1,
is that in Nielsen, when the link is selected, the sound
associated with that link is automatically selected and “opened”
along with the link, or website, because, as pointed out by
appellants at page 5 of the principal brief, the audio files are
background audio and, in essence, “part of the same web page on
which their links are found.” It is clear, from the language of
the instant claims, that the linked web pages of the invention
are such that an entirely new web page replaces the one on which
their links are found. Thus, it is clear that Nielsen is
deficient in this regard.
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