Appeal No. 2004-1627
Application No. 09/207,945
storing the file information as “separate” transactions in the
log file, as disclosed by Blumenau, is different from the claimed
appending the stored record. Blumenau generates a display of the
Web page requested by a user while a record of the requests for
files is stored on the server (col. 2, lines 29-35). However,
this stored record of the requests, or the log file, refers to a
number of transactions which individually include multiple fields
for storing predefined type of information about the requested
file (col. 2, lines 37-44). Therefore, what the Examiner
characterizes as the claimed “appending the stored record” in
Blumenau (answer, page 17), actually relates to storing
additional or new transactions in the log file (col. 3, lines 1-
3) which presents no useful correspondence between the number of
transactions in a log file and the number of times an
advertisement has been visited on a Web page (col. 3, lines 4-
15). This problem is what Blumenau solves by identifying and
eliminating the “redundant” transactions from the log file in
order to obtain a more accurate “hit count” (col. 3, lines 16-
25). Therefore, as pointed out by Appellants (reply brief, page
3), although Blumenau includes items or fields in the log file
for each transferred file, additional information are added to
the log file as new transaction records instead of appending a
stored record.
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