Appeal 2006-3143
Application 09/897,383
To determine the ordinary meaning of commonly understood words, it
is entirely appropriate to cite a dictionary definition. Agfa Corp. v. Creo
Products, Inc., 451 F.3d 1366, 1376, 79 USPQ2d 1385, 1392 (Fed. Cir.
2006) (noting that general purpose dictionaries may be helpful when claim
construction involves “little more than the application of widely accepted
meaning of commonly understood words”). “Parsing” is defined as
“examin[ing] in a minute way: analyz[ing] critically.”1 The user’s
determination of which portion of the initial image to zoom and selection
thereof reasonably constitutes “parsing” the initially-displayed image to
identify the corresponding response regions 48 (i.e., the “additional parts”)
that are needed to render the user’s selection.
After the user selects a desired region to zoom in Guedalia, the server
creates a new HTML page with a link to the response image portion (i.e., an
I.I.P. command sequence) and sends the HTML page to the client. Upon
receipt, if the client determines that the embedded image portion resides in
the client’s local cache, the image is displayed immediately. If not, the
client sends an I.I.P. request for the response image portion to the server.
Upon receipt, the server parses the client’s I.I.P. request, acquires and
assembles the necessary image data, and sends the image to the client. The
client then displays the HTML page with the new image (Guedalia, col. 19,
ll. 50 – col. 21, ll. 8; Figs. 3 and 4).
1 Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, at http://www.m-w.com/cgi-
bin/dictionary?book=Dictionary&va=parsing (last visited Jan. 10, 2007).
See also The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 4th
ed., at http://www.bartleby.com/61/33/P0083300.html (last visited Jan. 10,
2007) (defining “parse” as “[t]o examine closely or subject to detailed
analysis, especially by breaking up into components”).
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