Reexamination Control No. 90/005,742
Patent 5,253,341
1 O. The scope and meaning of claims 93-99
2 Claim 93, on which claims 94-99 depend directly or indirectly, reads:
3 93. A method for downloading responsive data from a remote
4 server comprising the following steps:
5 (a) identifying a query via a data input means and inputting said
6 query to remote query and data retrieval means;
7 (b) transmitting said query from said remote query and data
8 retrieval means to a remote server via an input/output means;
9 (c) receiving a compressed or non-compressed response to said
10 query at said remote query and data retrieval means from said remote
11 server via said input/output means;
12 (d) displaying a presentation corresponding to said compressed or
13 non-compressed response on output means;
14 (e) wherein said displaying step commences before said step of
15 receiving said compressed or non-compressed response has been
16 completed.
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18 Step (e) precludes downloading and storing the entire response at the user location
19 (which contains the recited input/output means and remote query and data retrieval means) prior
20 to commencing display of the corresponding presentation.
21 P. The merits of the § 112 rejection of claims 94 and 97
22 Dependent claims 94 and 97 stand rejected under § 112, first paragraph, as based on a
23 non-enabling disclosure. These claims specify (1) that the response represents an image (claim
24 94) or an animation sequence (recited in claim 96, on which claim 97 depends) and (2) that the
25 server generates the response by using differential compression "following receipt of said query"
26 from the user location (claims 94 and 97).47
47 More particularly, claim 94 specifies that "said compressed or non-compressed
response comprises an image that is differentially compressed following receipt of said query."
Claim 97 specifies that "said animation sequence [recited in claim 96] is differentially
compressed following receipt of said query."
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