Appeal No. 2003-0873
Application No. 08/896,245 Page 7
appears to be an integral construct of Smith (brief, page 9-10).
Additionally, appellants assert that Smith teaches away from a
persistent CGI process because it clearly discloses multiple
instances of a transient CGI program (brief, page 10-11).
From our review of Smith, we find that the reference relates
to an Internet communication system wherein a client establishes
a first connection to a server whereby a session server generates
and conveys session data to the requesting client; the session
server maintains this previously conveyed session data after
termination of the first connection to reconvey it to the client
who establishes a second connection in order to reduce or
eliminate the need for redundant information retrieval (col 1,
line 49 to col. 2, line 26). Upon establishing the initial
connection with the server, the client is assigned a unique
session identifier used to identify the client during subsequent
connections (col. 5, line 67 to col. 6, line 6). Client (12) may
establish an unlimited number of connections with the session
server (24) and a new CGI may handle communications during each
new connection (col. 9, lines 52-55). More specifically, Smith
discloses (col. 14, lines 43-46) that:
If client 12 establishes another connection with session
server 24 within the first specified time interval,
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