Appeal No. 2004-1450
Application No. 09/449,015
Wong fails to teach or suggest the system architecture recited in
the claimed invention. As noted by the examiner, Wong teaches a
three-tier computer architecture in which the server computer 12
operates in-between the hospital computers and the client
computers. The diagram of Wong’s system architecture in Figure 1
indicates that there are no direct communications between the
hospital computers and the client computers. All communications
between the hospital computers and the client computers must go
through the server computer. Appellants’ claims, however, recite
that a sender computer sends a static reference to a recipient
computer which identifies a source image on the server computer.
Thus, the claimed invention eliminates the need for the sender
computer to communicate with the server. As noted by appellants,
this architecture permits the static reference to be sent from
the sender computer to the recipient computer over a low
bandwidth link while the recipient computer can receive the
images from the server computer over a high bandwidth link.
Since the architecture required by the claimed invention is not
the same as the architecture taught by Wong, and since the
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