Appeal No. 2003-0726
Application No. 09/456,076
temporary copies of a web page dependent on criteria such as
frequency or duration of access to a particular web page, do not
index data which corresponds to the content of an accessed web
page as claimed.
We agree with the Examiner, however, that the embodiment
disclosed by Rosenzweig in which a particular web page provides
indexing to other locations within the same web page satisfies
the automatic indexing requirement of the appealed claims. As
illustrated in Figure 4 of Rosenzweig with accompanying
disclosure at paragraph 57, the cached copy of the accessed web
page 400 has links 410 at the top of the page which provide an
index to other locations within the web page, these indexing
links clearly corresponding to the contents of the web page.
While we found the above argument of Appellant to be without
merit, we do find to be persuasive Appellant’s arguments (Brief,
page 7; Reply Brief, page 2) directed to the claimed feature,
present in all of the independent claims, of “transmitting said
indexing data from said device to a remote data storage device
which provides a search engine database.” We recognize that the
Examiner has expanded his position on this claimed feature by
directing attention to paragraphs 49 and 91 in Rosenzweig
(Answer, page 4). We find nothing, however, in either of these
paragraphs, or elsewhere in Rosenzweig, that would support the
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