Appeal No. 2004-1316 Page 7
Application No. 09/241,276
use." Col. 2, ll. 22-25. "Employing VDE creation software . . . and VDE templates,
users may create VDE objects 300 by, for example, partitioning the objects, placing
'meta data' (e.g., author's name, creation date, etc.) into them, and assigning rights
associated with them and/or object content to, for example, a publisher and/or content
creator." Col. 257, ll. 23-29. "When an object creator runs through this process,
she [sic] normally will go through a content specification procedure which will request
required data. The content specification process, when satisfied, may proceed by, for
example, inserting data into a template and encapsulating the content." Id. at ll. 29-34.
The examiner does not allege, let alone show, that the reference stores metadata
in a database for subsequent retrieval and insertion into a metadata template. To the
contrary, he explains that in "Ginter . . . an operator is the entity that manually acquires
the information that is inserted into the template." (Examiner's Answer at 17.) Lacking
a database for storing metadata, the reference does not include any table for mapping
data fields of its VDE template to locations in such as database as admitted by the
examiner. (Id. at 9.)
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