Appeal No. 2005-1431
Application 09/442,070
more of these tasks. In addition, most current Web browsers permit users
to send and receive e-mail and to read and respond to newsgroups. Also
called browser. See also ActiveX controls, helper application, hyperlink,
Internet Explorer, Java applet, Lynx, Mosaic, Netscape Navigator, plug-in.
Microsoft Press Computer Dictionary 64, 505 (3d ed. 1997) (copy enclosed). Inasmuch as these
definitions were published two years after Doyle's October 1994 filing date, they fail to show
how the terms "browser" and "browser application" as used in Doyle would have been construed
at that time. We are therefore reversing the rejection to the extent it is based on the term
"browser application."
4. An "embed text format"
Claim 50 specifies that "said first hypermedia document includes an embed text format,
located at a first location in said first hypermedia document, that specifies the location of at least
a portion of an object external to the first hypermedia document." Claim 40 describes the
"distributed hypermedia document" in similar terms.
As the term "embed text format" is not defined in Doyle41 and has not been shown to
have a special meaning in the art, we are construing it as broad enough to read on any embedded
information which performs the recited function of specifying the location of at least a portion of
an object external to the document.
Appellants (Brief at 32) would have us read the embed text format on the handle 604 in
the data structure 601 (Figure 6), which presumably is embedded in the compound document.
41 In the Doyle patent, this term appears to refer to the "embedded program link 214" in
hypermedia document 212 in Figure 5 (col. 9, ll. 30-39).
48
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