Appeal No. 2003-0813
Application No. 08/771,885
In our previous decision of February 6, 2001, we affirmed the examiner’s
decision rejecting claim 21 under 35 U.S.C. §103 over Ahlin. In the instant case, claim
21 has been amended to include two additional limitations. The claim now recites that
each public kiosk is operable using “configuration and interface information stored in a
locally accessible associated memory without accessing said centralized server.” It
also recites that when desired information is not stored in the local memory, the user’s
selection is forwarded to a centralized server, wherein each of the public kiosks is
directly connected to at least one centralized server via “a wide area communications
network.”
Appellant now argues that neither Ahlin nor Kawan teaches or suggests using
“configuration and interface information stored in a locally accessible associated
memory without accessing said centralized server” because these references need to
download operating software to the local computer, e.g., to the telephone-computer in
Kawan. Appellant reasons that since everything needs to be downloaded, this is in
contrast to the instant claimed invention which recites information being stored in a
locally accessible associated memory “without accessing said centralized server.”
We disagree. While it may be that Ahlin and Kawan download necessary
information, e.g., application program pages, from a centralized server, we note, as did
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