Appeal No. 2002-1289
Application No. 08/972,219
22) and the Reply Brief (Paper No. 24) for appellants’ position with respect to the claims
which stand rejected.
OPINION
In the section 103 rejection applied against instant claim 1, the examiner relies
on Daly to show a server manager component. “The server manager component has a
server manager window 108(user interface) [sic] through which the human network
administrator (client) can view the instantiations of the various network service entities
that are installed on the server of the network....” (Answer at 4.) Daly “does not teach a
client process for downloading to a client computer for execution.” Gish, however, is
deemed to disclose “an object-oriented system for a client-server application enabler
system which includes a toolkit for creating client programs that can be downloaded on
the Web....” (Id. at 5.)
Appellants argue, inter alia, that Daly discloses invoking instantiations, or copies,
of visual manager objects, with features previously defined by network service
developers, referring to column 8, lines 35 through 40 of Daly. (Brief at 12.) Because
Daly does not teach having a network administrator create an element manager object
using a visual element manager builder, and Gish does not teach a builder with a
downloadable user interface for creating element manager objects, the references fail
to teach or suggest having the system administrator create element manager objects
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