Appeal No. 2003-0873
Application No. 08/896,245 Page 2
The persistent CGI program is executed as a sub-process of the
web server (specification, page 5). An understanding of the
invention can be derived from a reading of exemplary claim 8,
which is reproduced as follows:
8. A persistent CGI apparatus, the apparatus comprising:
at least one CPU;
a memory coupled to the CPU
a persistent CGI program residing in the memory and being
executed by the CPU, wherein the persistent CGI program is
capable of receiving and transmitting data to and from a web
browser via a non-continuous communication connection which is
established between the web browser and a first instance of the
persistent CGI program, said first instance of the persistent CGI
program remaining active after processing a request received from
the web browser, whereby said first instance of the persistent
CGI program processes a plurality of discrete requests from said
web browser; and
an identification mechanism residing in the memory, the
identification mechanism identifying at least one resource-
specific address from the at least one web browser that will be
accepted by said first instance of the persistent CGI program.
The prior art references of record relied upon by the
examiner in rejecting the appealed claims are:
Montulli 5,774,670 Jun. 30, 1998
(filed Oct. 6, 1995)
Smith 5,835,724 Nov. 10, 1998
(filed Jul. 3, 1996)
Claims 3-5 and 8 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 103(a) as
being unpatentable over Smith.
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