Appeal No. 2004-1548
Application 09/127,954
documents have the same characteristics and functionalities of a
web page" (EA8).
Appellant argues that neither Matsumoto nor Hashimoto make
any mention of either a Web page or a hyperlinked document
(RBr5). In Matsumoto, communication of information about a
document is linked to a document ID and where a client requests
information about a specific document, the client expects to get
in return information about the specific document no matter how
many times the request is made, whereas claim 10 recites
"creating, in response to a collection request, a list of web
pages in said document storage that have been modified since a
previous collection request so that the collection request only
retrieves previously unretrieved documents, thereby reducing the
load on the web page server" (RBr5). We agree that this
limitation is not taught or suggested by Matsumoto or Hashimoto.
While Matsumoto discloses a link information table 28, this
table merely stores information about the copy relationship
between documents that are stored in the external memory device
(col. 4, lines 24-29); these are not hypertext links. Nor are
the documents stored in Matsumoto considered "web pages."
Furthermore, there is no "collection request" and no listing of
pages modified since a previous collection request. The
rejection does not address many limitations of claim 10. The
rejection of claim 10 is reversed.
- 9 -
Page: Previous 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 Next
Last modified: November 3, 2007