Appeal No. 2004-1749
Application No. 09/047,396
OPINION
We reverse the aforementioned rejection.
Venkatraman discloses (col. 2, lines 13-26):
A solution for providing widely accessible, low
cost, and enhanced user interface functions for a
device is disclosed. The solution involves embedding
web access functionality into the device including a
web server that provides a device web page. The device
includes an embedded network interface that enables
access to the device web page by a web browser. A user
of the web browser accesses the user interface
functions for the device through the device web page.
The web server functionality may be implemented with
existing circuitry in a device, such as an
exiting [sic] processor, memory, and input/output
circuitry that normally perform device-specific
functions, thereby avoiding the extra cost and space
required for dedicated web server hardware for the
device.
Hanson seeks to create a single device driver that provides
communication between any host computer system and any peripheral
device (col. 4, lines 6-9). The device driver has an operating
system (OS) independent device driver portion and an OS specific
driver portion (col. 3, lines 28-30; col. 4, lines 23-25). The
OS independent device driver portion includes information
regarding peripheral device operation and peripheral specific
data objects, and may include graphical user interface (GUI)
objects (col. 4, lines 46-49). The OS specific device driver
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