Appeal No. 2006-2890
Application No. 09/842,747
a. automatically receiving an updated mailbox content list from a server
through a wireless network;
b. scrolling through the updated mailbox content list and selecting a
message therefrom with a wireless device;
c. forming a communication link through the wireless network thereby
linking the wireless device and the server;
d. selectively receiving the message on the wireless device from the server
over the communication link; and
e. providing the message to a user.
The following references are relied on by the examiner:
Stein et al. (Stein) 6,289,212 Sept. 11, 2001
(Filed October 13, 1998)
Cloutier et al. (Cloutier) 6,535,586 Mar. 18, 2003
(Filed December 30, 1998)
Claims 1 through 24 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 103. As evidence of
obviousness as to claims 1, 2, 4 through 7, 9 through 14, 16 through 20 and 22
through 24, the examiner relies upon Cloutier in view of Stein, with the addition of
appellant’s admitted prior art as to claims 3, 8, 15 and 21.
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