Appeal No. 2004-1450
Application No. 09/449,015
server (third computer). Appellants also argue that the applied
prior art fails to teach or suggest the transmission of a static
reference to a dynamic image as claimed. With respect to
independent claim 7, appellants also argue that neither Wong nor
Popa teaches a technique that permits an image sender to transmit
a view of an image for a source image that includes multiple
views (brief, pages 3-11).
The examiner responds that Wong teaches a three-tier
architecture in which a server operates as a second tier between
first and third tier computers. The examiner also responds that
Popa is relied on for sending multiple versions of an image
(answer, pages 12-15).
Appellants respond that the three-tier computer
architecture taught by Wong does not meet the claimed invention.
Specifically, appellants assert that Wong does not disclose
limitations for transmitting a static reference between an image
sender computer and an image recipient computer and for using the
static reference at a server to obtain an image (reply brief).
We will not sustain the examiner’s rejection of claims 1,
3, 6-8, 10-12, 14 and 17-19 based on the teachings of Wong and
Popa because the three-tier computer architecture as taught by
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