Appeal No. 2002-2040
Application No. 09/160,490
user’s preferences in regard to the technical features of the
equipment, storing information relating to new and modified
technical features of the equipment, determining if a prospective
technical feature is relevant to the end user, based upon the
stored information, and notifying the end-user of the option to
select a relevant technical feature for addition to the equipment
(Examiner’s Answer, Paper 22 page 3, lines 6-17). The examiner
has additionally found that Traversat describes a server to send
application updates over a network to a client for the client to
determine which application to upgrade (Id., page 3, line 19 –
page 4, line 2).
The examiner then concluded that it would have been obvious
to one of ordinary skill in the art at the time the invention was
made to incorporate notifying the client via a network, taught by
Traversat, into the updating system, taught by Rowley, since
Traversat suggests that the configuration and profile files of a
client, similar to the registration file disclosed by Rowley, can
be on the server, so that the client would be notified of upgrades
over the network. According to the examiner, one of ordinary
skill in the art would have been motivated to modify Rowley to
include the network server in view of Traversat, so that the
configuration and profile files would be centrally stored to
easily determine upgrades by multiple clients to be able to have a
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