Appeal No.2004-1526
Application No. 09/354,052
sources. One is an Internet server and one is a local server.
Thus, the information comes from a “plurality of content sources
of multiple types.” Moreover, as indicated by the examiner, and
shown in Figure 12 of Vora, there are “different types” of
information sources taught by the reference, including
Literature, Bibliographies, Weather patterns, Business news, and
Plants. Contrary to appellant’s argument that the reference
refers only to different types of subjects, and that the claims
recite different types of sources, not different subjects, Vora
clearly describes, in Figure 12 that these different subjects are
“Available Sources.” Thus, it appears to us that Vora is
indicating different “types” of sources in the list under the
heading of “Available Sources.”
Appellant explains that the instant application provides
examples of what is meant by different types of content sources,
listing TV, DVD, WEB, GAMES and MUSIC, and that these are not the
same as the single type, i.e., documents, described by Vora.
Appellant contends that documents are one type of content, but we
agree with the examiner that the term is so broad as to encompass
different document types, such as those shown in the list in
Figure 12 of Vora. We find no reason to delve into the
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