Appeal No. 2002-2137
Application No. 08/772,738
at least one Central Processing Unit (CPU);
a memory coupled to said CPU;
a disconnect mechanism, said disconnect mechanism residing
in said memory and being executed by said CPU, said disconnect
mechanism being used by said software application to facilitate a
request for input from one of said plurality of web browsers such
that said software application need not wait for said input.
The prior art references of record relied upon by the
examiner in rejecting the appealed claims are:
Ishida (Hideaki)1 JP 5-324526 Dec. 07, 1993
Preston Gralla, "How Intranets Work," Ziff-Davis Press,
California (November 1996), pp. xi-xiii, 32-37. (Gralla)
Claims 39 through 72 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 103 as
being unpatentable over Hideaki in view of Gralla.
Reference is made to the Examiner's Answer (Paper No. 33,
mailed April 19, 2003) for the examiner's complete reasoning in
support of the rejections, and to appellants' Brief (Paper
No. 31, filed January 30, 2002) and Reply Brief (Paper No. 34,
filed June 24, 2002) for the appellants' arguments thereagainst.
OPINION
We have carefully considered the claims, the applied prior
art references, and the respective positions articulated by
1 We note that both the examiner and appellants refer to this reference
as Hideaki. Accordingly, we too will refer to it as Hideaki.
2
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