Ex Parte ROBINSON et al - Page 2




              Appeal No. 2004-0519                                                                                       
              Application No. 09/394,199                                                                                 


              page 4 of appellants’ specification).  The base station connects to the computer system                    
              via a display port, which would normally be connected to the computer system’s display                     
              (see page 7 of appellants’ specification).                                                                 

                     Claim 22 is representative of the invention and reproduced below:                                   
                     22.    A portable user interface to a computer system, comprising:                                  
                            base station that connects to a display port of the computer system                          
                        wherein the display port is adapted to provide a set of raw picture information                  
                        to a local display of the computer system, the base station compressing the                      
                        raw picture information that would normally go to the local display and                          
                        transmitting the raw picture information via communication link;                                 
                            screen-pad receiving the raw picture information via the communication                       
                        link and decompressing the raw picture information, and displaying an image                      
                        defined by the raw picture information.                                                          

                                                      References                                                         
                 The reference relied upon by the examiner is:                                                           

                     Stoye                           5,969,696            October 19, 1999                               
                                                                   (filed November 13, 1995)                             
                     Nahi et al. (Nahi)              6,084,584            July 4, 2000                                   
                                                                   (filed October 1, 1996)                               








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