Appeal No. 2006-2700
Application No. 10/705,456
system, through the API, provides client computers (100) with a
list of callable functions available on the back-end system from
which the client computers can select functions pertaining to
their desired requests. Shapiro further teaches that the selected
functions utilize function-specific parameters as a way to broker
the client requests to the back-end system via the web servers
and the application servers. Additionally, Shapiro teaches that
upon receiving a function-specific parameter indicating a
particular client request, the back-end system processes the
parameter to retrieve the corresponding data or service from the
database, the web server, or application server. The back-end
system subsequently returns the retrieved data to the client
computer through corresponding function-specific parameters
associated therewith via the API.
Next, we find that Fisher teaches an API layer for allowing
business applications running offline on a mobile communication
device to synchronize data with a computer system over an Internet
connection. [paragraph 11]
It is our view that one of ordinary skill in the art would
have duly recognized that Shapiro’s teaching, taken in combination
with Fisher’s teaching, amount to the claimed limitation of
processing function-specific parameters to provide a response to a
request for data pertaining to a wireless mobile device. The
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