Appeal No. 2004-1177
Application No. 08/769,404
BACKGROUND
Appellants’ invention relates to a platform independent on-line project
management tool. An understanding of the invention can be derived from a reading of
exemplary claim 1, which is reproduced below.
1. A system for sharing data over a wide area data network,
comprising:
a database for including therein said shared data;
a database server, having read and write access to said database,
for receiving read and write access requests for said database over said
wide area data network; and
a graphical user interface server providing graphical user interfaces
to allow user access to said shared data, said graphical user interfaces
being generated at the time of said user access, each comprising a set of
methods specific to said shared data and associated with user-selectable
icons provided to allow users to interact with said database server via web
browsers, said database server being located on a different computer
system than said web browsers, said methods generating said read and
write requests to access said shared data in response to user selection of
said icons during said user access, wherein a user associates an object
corresponding to at least one of said graphical user interfaces with at least
one of said methods to handle an event.
The prior art references of record relied upon by the examiner in rejecting the
appealed claims are:
O’Rourke et al. (O’Rourke) 5,349,658 Sep. 20, 1994
Marlin et al. (Marlin) 5,778,377 Jul. 07, 1998
(filed Nov. 4, 1994)
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