Appeal No. 2005-1431
Application 09/442,070
Doyle reads the term "browser software" on the software that permits the user to
selectively retrieve and display the linked objects in the hypermedia document:
When the user clicks on image icon 22 browser software executing on the user's
computer system retrieves the corresponding full image, e.g., a bit map, and displays it by
using external software called a "viewer." This results in the full image, represented by
image 16, being displayed on the screen.
Doyle patent, col. 3, ll. 3-8.43
The '701 patent fails to disclose a hypermedia environment or a hypermedia document.
Appellants argue that the compound document depicted in their Figures 3 and 4 is a
"hypermedia" document because
the API described in the present specification supports an environment in which
documents created by an application program (e.g., Word) link to and display data
objects (e.g., Excel data) existing outside of the documents and created by
different application programs (e.g., Excel). The linked objects may be text or
graphical objects such as spreadsheets (e.g., an Excel spreadsheet in Figs[.]3
and 4).
Brief at 27. The fact that appellants' compound document includes text and links to Excel
graphics is insufficient in and of itself to satisfy the above definition of a "hypermedia
document." Appellants' compound document does not include hypertext or icons or any other
indicia which can be selectively activated (e.g., clicked on) by the user to cause retrieval and
display of the corresponding linked objects, as required by the definition. In appellants'
compound document, each embedded or linked object (e.g., the Excel spreadsheet object) is
43 However, Doyle does not offer a definition of "browser software" or "browser
application," let alone clearly define either term as being restricted to use with hypermedia
documents.
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