Appeal No. 2004-1827 Page 7
Application No. 09/467,396
applications, while the interpretative server interprets the
information from the proprietary databases and generates
applications” (col. 4 lines 58-62). The “[i]nterpretive server
. . . interacts with ADBs to generate application logic on the
fly according to the application definition data it gets from the
ADBs” (col. 5, lines 49-53). In Kohl, “[u]ser interaction with
the interpretative server occurs via HTML pages displayed by a
Web browser” (col. 6, lines 4-6). These pages may contain “HTML,
JavaScript, Java and/or any scripting or embedded language” (col.
6, lines 13-14). Kohl teaches that “Java programs that work on
Web pages are called ‘applets.’ A Java applet is a program
designed to be included in an HTML document and run inside a Web
browser” (col. 6, lines 7-10). Kohl also teaches that “the same
environment may be used to design, generate and store non-Web
applications such as client-server applications” (col. 5, lines
3-5).
From the teachings of Kohl, we agree with the examiner that
Kohl discloses a method for electronically providing customized
software. This method of Kohl receives a customer specification
through the web, and automatically creates customer compatible
software that meets the customer specification, and
electronically provides the customer compatible software to the
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