Reexamination Control No. 90/005,742
Patent 5,253,341
1 RAM or on a disk 424. However, whether or not the passage cited by the examiner describes
2 using the input means (e.g., keyboard 424) to formulate a request for an object from the
3 interactive network, it is clear from the other passages that the data input means is to be used to
4 formulate such requests. See, e.g., Filepp. col. 5, ll. 41-44 (“objects make up one or more
5 partitioned applications, and are retrieved on demand by a user's RS 400 for interpretive
6 execution and selective storage”). Dr. Koopman’s testimony on this point, as well as on many
7 others, lacks probative value because it is limited to the specific reference language cited by the
8 examiner rather than addressing the reference as a whole.
9 Turning now to the next limitation, the examiner, without contradiction by Dr. Koopman,
10 reads the recited "means for transmitting said query from said remote query and data retrieval
11 means to a remote host processor via a concentrator means" on the means for allowing RS 400 to
12 communicate with network 10. 3d Action at 77, para. 15(b); Final Action at 235-36, para. 15(b).
13 As shown in Figure 2, this communication means includes cache/concentrator layer 300
14 (including cache/concentrators 302), which transmits a query via line 301 to switch/file server
15 layer 200 (including file server 205), which in turn is connected via lines 210 to information
16 layer 100 (including, e.g., a high function system 110).
17 Regarding the claim's requirement that "the remote query and data retrieval means
18 receiv[es] a compressed response to said query from said remote host via said input/output
19 means," the examiner explains that the retrieved object includes a compression descriptor
20 segment that identifies the type of compression applied to the object data by interactive
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