Appeal No. 2005-2329
Application No. 09/738,293
Representative claim 1 is reproduced below:
1. (Previously Amended) A distributed application for facilitating
collaboration between geographically-dispersed members of a team,
comprising:
a collaboration services suite adapted to establish a communications
session between two or more members of the team over at least a
Switched Telephone Network (STN) in response to a request from any one
of the team members using dynamic presence and availability information
respecting each team member; and
a team member interface adapted to display the dynamic presence
and availability information to each member of the team, and to enable a
team member to request initiation by the collaboration services suite of a
communications session with at least one other team member over at least
the Switched Telephone Network (STN).
The following references are relied on by the examiner:
Tang et al. (Tang) 5,793,365 Aug. 11, 1998
Klein et al. (Klein) 5,995,492 Nov. 30, 1999
Appellants’ Prior Art Specification Page 32, lines 18-26
All claims on appeal stand rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 103. As
evidence of obviousness as to claims 1-47, 49, 50, 53-58, 61 and 63-65,
the examiner relies upon Tang in view of Klein, with the addition of
Appellants’ admitted prior art, such as specification page 32, lines 18-26, as
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