Appeal No. 2005-1431
Application 09/442,070
("Windows"), although one skilled in the art will appreciate that the present invention can be
implemented in a different underlying window system. Col. 12, ll. 23-30.
The '701 patent does not explain whether the disclosed computer system and method are
to be practiced on a stand-alone computer or on a network computer or both.
C. The prosecution history relevant to the incorporation by reference issue
Claim 40 as amended by the "Second Preliminary Amendment"12 reads as follows. We
have underlined some of the language the examiner contends lacks written description support in
the '701 patent:
40. A method for running an application program in a computer network
environment, comprising:
providing at least one client workstation and one network server coupled
to said network environment, wherein said network environment is a distributed
hypermedia environment,
executing, at said client workstation, a browser application, that parses a
first distributed hypermedia document to identity text formats included in said
distributed hypermedia document and for responding to predetermined text
formats to initiate processing specified by said text formats,
utilizing said browser to display, on said client workstation, at least a
portion of a first hypermedia document received over said network from said
server,
wherein the portion of said first hypermedia document is displayed
within a first browser-controlled window on said client workstation,
wherein said first distributed hypermedia document includes an
embed text format, located at a first location in said first distributed
12 Paper No. 16.
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