Appeal No. 2005-2329
Application No. 09/738,293
associated with the claimed STN, Tang’s discussion of the prior art at
columns 2 and 3 clearly encompasses the use of Public Switch Telephone
Networks since it indicates that telecommuting is known in the art, that
networked computer systems were used in the prior art along with video
teleconferencing, and the use of telephones associated with such video
teleconferencing is discussed at column 2 as well as chat rooms at column
3. In fact Tang teaches that “an architecture supporting the present
invention makes use of the existing communication facilities of the user’s
computer and network to integrate such facilities into the user interface
mechanism providing access to other workgroup members.” (Column 4,
lines 23-28). As indicated by the examiner in the Responsive Arguments
portion of the answer beginning at page 19, the discussion represented at
column 11, lines 37-39 also characterizes the showing of the network 123
in Figure 10 as including prior art LAN, WAN, the Internet or the like by
utilizing network interface 113 for each computer 101 and to be able to
access remote servers, etc. In fact, as noted by the examiner, column 6,
lines 47-59 specifically teach the use of telephones in Tang’s system.
Based upon these more expansive teachings in Tang, we agree with
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