Appeal No. 2004-0663
Application No. 09/375,260
BACKGROUND
Appellants’ invention relates to a modification system for supporting localized
data changes in a mobile device. An understanding of the invention can be derived
from a reading of exemplary claim 1, which is reproduced below.
1. A method of localizing changes in a computer, the method
comprising:
executing a change to data in a computer having a local database,
the change being performed by the computer to modify data in the local
database stored within a data storage device at the computer;
indicating, on the computer, whether the change is a global change
or a local change; and
when the local database on the computer is synchronized with a main
database on another computer, transmitting only global changes from the local
database to the main database and not transmitting local changes.
The prior art references of record relied upon by the examiner in rejecting the
appealed claims are:
Boothby 6,141,664 Oct. 31, 2000
(Filed Nov. 13, 1996)
Mendez 6,151,606 Nov. 21, 2000
(Filed Jan.16, 1998)
Claims 1-42 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 112, second paragraph, as failing
to particularly point out and distinctly claim the invention. Claims 1, 2, 15, 16, 29, and
30 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 102 as being anticipated by Mendez. Claims 3-14,
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