Appeal No. 2002-1946
Application 08/988,080
We are therefore unpersuaded by the examiner's reasoning
principally at page 11 of the answer that the noted teachings
"explicitly imply" that user A would manually terminate its
Internet connection in order to call the user B when there is
only one telephone line available to user A. The various call
setup request approaches associated with the embodiments in
Figure 16 do not change the automatic nature of the suspension
and speculative manner of termination of the phone line
associated with Figure 14. As emphasized at pages 2 and 3 of
the reply brief, it appears to us as well that it is user A's
terminal 53 and not the user himself that automatically suspends
as noted at these portions of the reply brief. The speculative
nature of the manner in which the actual termination occurs as
discussed earlier in our opinion is noted again by the question
posed by appellants that why should the calling party be
instructed to perform manual termination of the actual line when
the terminal 53 itself performs an automatic suspension of the
connection anyway?
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