Appeal No. 2004-0953 Page 2
Application No. 09/215,593
1. A system for proofing electronic documents delivered over
a network comprising:
a plurality of electronic documents in portable document
file format;
a computer connectable to the network for receiving the
plurality of portable format documents together with at least one
associated proofer identifier;
a program executing on said computer for assigning a version
number to each of the plurality of received portable format
documents; and
a database accessible by said computer for storing the
documents and associated version numbers;
said computer for receiving a request, from a proofer
presenting the proofer identifier, to review multiple versions of
a portable format electronic document;
said program for retrieving and formatting the requested
multiple document versions for simultaneous display to permit
visual comparison.
The prior art references of record relied upon by the
examiner in rejecting the appealed claims are:
Ogawa 5,438,661 Aug. 1, 1995
Smith et al. (Smith) 5,790,790 Aug. 4, 1998
Plantz et al. (Plantz) 6,088,702 Jul. 11, 2000
(filed Feb. 25, 1998)
Aoyama et al. (Aoyama) 6,301,592 Oct. 9, 2001
(filed Nov. 4, 1998)
Adobe Acrobat Review, Adobe Acrobat 3.0, (“Adobe Acrobat 3.0),
1993
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