Appeal No. 2001-1604
Application No. 08/785,912
In attempting to remedy this deficiency, the examiner relies
on Mogul. But, while Mogul does involve a pre-fetch of an object
before a user actually requests it, similar to the linked web
pages of the instant invention, Mogul’s server selects the
objects to be pre-fetched based on “predictive prefetching,”
i.e., based on observations of the behavior of users of the
system.
As pointed out by appellants, at page 6 of the principal
brief, this is much different than the instant claimed invention
where the definition of the html dictates which link to prefetch.
The person who wrote the html determines if any one of the html
links defined in the html being displayed should be prefetched.
It is true that the instant claims contain no explicit limitation
regarding a person writing the html determining if a link should
be prefetched. However, the claims do require that a link is
“marked for pre-loading.” Accordingly, something, or someone, is
doing the “marking.” While Nielsen may be “marking” a link for
pre-loading in the sense that a sound file is “marked” so that it
is pre-loaded with a web page, as explained supra, the sound file
is part of the same web page with which it is associated and, in
this sense, is unlike the instant claimed invention. Clearly, no
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