Appeal No. 2002-1946
Application 08/988,080
ability to the telephone server 30 to the telephone 22 of the
called party. There appears to be no teaching or suggestion
then of the calling party terminating a line connection on line
20 to its own server 26.
In addition to the Abstract in Low, the more pertinent
figures in this reference, as argued by the examiner, include
Figures 14-16C and the discussion beginning at page 43, line 16
through page 50, line 27. In the context of the operability of
the overall system in Figure 14, the discussion in the paragraph
bridging pages 44 and 45, as noted and quoted by appellants in
the brief, teaches that should the terminal in this figure be
connected to a non-ISDN line or an ordinary telephone line, user
A's terminal 53, once it obtains a telephone number of user B
from user B's phone page off of the Internet, user A's terminal
53 "automatically suspend[s] its Internet session ... and then
terminate[s] its ... connection to thereby free up the telephone
line." See page 45, lines 3-6.
Appellants' arguments with respect to this portion of Low
relied upon by the examiner at page 5 of the principal brief on
appeal is well taken. Although the teaching is clear that Low's
terminal 53 automatically suspends the calling party's Internet
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