Ex Parte Lenz et al - Page 8



          Appeal No. 2005-0074                                                        
          Application No. 09/739,080                                                  

          further noted by the examiner (Answer, page 8), the personal                
          computer 104 disclosed by Provost can communicate, view and/or              
          access data over the network (from host data processor 102; see             
          col. 5, ll. 45-49), and thus falls within the scope of the                  
          claimed “web client.”                                                       
               With regard to the rejection of claim 49, appellants argue             
          that the remotely located host data processor 102 is not formed             
          as a component of an ID card personalization device as recited in           
          claim 49 (Brief, page 13).  This argument is not persuasive                 
          since, as noted by the examiner (Answer, page 8), the host                  
          computer disclosed by Provost may be considered as a web server.            
          The host data processor communicates with the personal computer             
          104 (web client)(see col. 5, ll. 29-31).  See the specification,            
          pages 11 and 12, where a “web server” allows the web clients to             
          remotely access data (page 12) or serves information or data                
          using Internet protocols to networked devices that include a web            
          client (page 11).  Giving the broadest reasonable interpretation            
          to “web server” consistent with the specification, we agree with            
          the examiner that Provost describes a host data processor that              
          functions as a web server within the scope of claim 49.  See In             
          re Graves, supra.                                                           

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