Appeal No. 2004-1316 Page 8
Application No. 09/241,276
For its part, Shklar teaches "a system for accessing and presenting data by
creating an object oriented organization of the data that can be used to customize the
format for displaying the information in real time." Col. 1, ll. 10-13. "Requests for data
are sent by [a] user from the terminal 110 through any network 120, such as the global
Internet, and received via the network's routing scheme at a system server 130.
Located on the system server 130 are . . . metadata which relates to stored data on
remote servers, such as remote server 140." Col. 3, ll. 27-33. "[D]iscrete news items,"
col. 3, l. 54, are examples of the data stored on the remote servers.
"In use, the user accesses a browser . . . and enters an HTTP request for data,
which is routed to the main server," col. 5, ll. 62-63, i.e., the system server 130. "The
server [130] retrieves the metadata for the request which tells the server the location of
the remote files [i.e., the remote server 140] and the location within the files of the
requested data." Id. at ll. 64-67. "The encapsulated stored data is retrieved [from the
remote server 140] and processed into HTML format, according to the metadata (which
was generated according to the structure specification), and the presentation
specification and returned to the user's browser for display." Col. 5, l. 67 - col. 6, l. 4.
Although Shklar includes a database, viz., the remote server 140, and an "'index'
. . . used to retrieve information," (Examiner's Answer at 18), therefrom, the reference
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