Appeal No. 2004-1702
Application 09/182,745
Syeda and argue that "Syeda does not teach an IMA as disclosed
and claimed, nor a method for assembling said IMA" (Br10). It is
argued that the meta-database in Syeda is not an application or
software module as claimed (Br11) and the categorization of
databases in the meta-database has absolutely no relevance to
assembling an application using software modules as claimed
(Br12). It is argued (Br12): "Appellant points out that
appellant's invention specifically teaches and recites claims for
assembling an application (computer software) for accessing
databases. The Examiner must therefore provide prior art that
not only has software for accessing a database, but a method for
assembling the application or software."
The examiner agrees that the meta-database in Syeda is not
an application or software module. The examiner states (EA9):
"[I]t is also clear that the features of accessing and presenting
the multimedia files stored in the database repositories in Syeda
teach that an Interactive Multimedia Application is a part of the
system of Syeda. Since Syeda has the capability of performing
the functionalities of an Interactive Multimedia Application,
Syeda system does disclose the software modules for an
Interactive Multimedia Application" (EA9).
reasoning appears unchanged and the examiner relies upon the same
portion of Syeda.
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