Appeal No. 2003-0813
Application No. 08/771,885
the examiner, that appellant also needs to download information which is not available
in local memory, from a centralized server. Once the application program, in Ahlin and
Kawan, is downloaded, the required information is now in local memory and the
configuration and interface information in the references is now stored in a locally
accessible associated memory “without accessing said centralized server,” as claimed.
It appears to us that interpretation of the instant claim language is a matter of “when”
one is looking at the status of the system. If the required information is already located
at the local memory, then that information is accessible “without accessing said
centralized server.” However, if the information is not available at the local memory,
then the required information must be downloaded from the centralized server. For
example, reference is made to column 7, lines 23-50, of Ahlin, wherein there is a
description of a host computer that downloads a series of application program pages to
a home terminal. Once the home terminal has the program, the program is operated
from the home terminal and it is no longer necessary to download the program.
Appellant further argues that the limitation of a “wide area communications
network” distinguishes over the applied references. In particular, appellant argues that
since Kawan indicates that the telephone-computer therein delivers services “through
an ordinary telephone instrument via conventional telephone lines...” (abstract), such
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