Appeal No. 2004-1148
Application No. 09/374,694
connotative meanings the content can have are "as perceived by
the user." In other words, the different meanings may vary from
one user to the next or even from one time to the next for the
same user.
The examiner asserts (Answer, page 4) that the AAPA
discloses caching the copy of information "in dependence upon a
semantic type associated with the resource (whether it is an
image or text)." The examiner has equated semantic type with
whether a resource is image or text. Appellant does state that
the resource is cached based on a prediction of whether the
resource is likely to have changed. However, appellant implies
that the prediction is substantially fixed and not subject to a
user's perception. Appellant gives as an example, an image being
expected to change less often than text. The implication is that
an image basically always changes less often than text,
regardless of the user. In other words, the "connotative
meanings" are essentially fixed. Therefore, the AAPA fails to
meet appellant's "semantic type" wherein the different
connotative meanings that the resources can have are as perceived
by the user. Accordingly, we cannot sustain the anticipation
rejection of claims 1 through 20 over the AAPA.
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