Appeal No. 2006-2723
Application No. 09/891,264
The Examiner responds by asserting that Appellant’s position regarding
Beck is an inaccurate interpretation of Beck’s disclosure because Beck does not
limit his invention to devices having similar modules, such as PDA’s. The
Examiner, relying on Beck (col. 1, lines 25-44), argues that Beck is actually
“directed at solving the problem of providing both ‘mobile and non-mobile
devices’ the ability to discover and use services in an efficient manner within a
network environment” (answer, page 16). Further relying on several excerpts of
the Beck disclosure (including col. 1, lines 9-20; col. 8, lines 9-15; col. 8, lines 62-
64), the Examiner contends that Appellant’s assertion is in conflict with Beck’s
goal of allowing both mobile and non-mobile computing devices to share services
by interacting with other electronic devices (answer, pages 16-17).
After a review of Beck, we find that the disclosed service framework for
computing devices enables computing devices to share services over a network.
Beck illustrates an embodiment of this idea in Figure 1, which shows two
computing devices, such as PDA’s, sharing software services from a common file
server 102 over a common network 103. The common file server 102 is a very
different type of device than the mobile device. Furthermore, as cited by the
Examiner (answer, page 5), Beck shows an embodiment in which the two devices
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