Appeal No. 2006-0362
Application No. 09/455,201
and cites the reference to Namma (answer, page 17) to support the
taking of Official Notice1. The examiner additionally asserts
(id.) that although Hodge teaches receiving Internet data from a
web page, and that a web site can stream video, that Hodge is
silent on the data being associated with said streaming video.
The examiner additionally asserts (answer, pages 4 and 5) that
Hodge teaches storing video data in a first format (Internet
protocol) and encoding (transcoding) the data, into an MPEG data
format to form an MPEG streaming video, but that Hodge is silent
on using the MPEG digital video format. To overcome these
deficiencies of Hodge, the examiner turns to Dureau for a
teaching of using an MPEG encoder for Internet video thereby
creating an MPEG digital video format.
Appellants' position (brief, page 10) is that neither Hodge
nor Dureau mention Internet streaming video and that the
combination would not result in the special treatment of Internet
streaming video as claimed. It is asserted (id.) that "[n]one of
1 It is unclear as to why the examiner has not listed the Namma reference in the statement of the
rejection.
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