Ex Parte Belknap et al - Page 5

                    Appeal 2007-0264                                                                                                       
                    Application 09/986,248                                                                                                 
                    teaches a packetization transport  protocol and Feinman teaches transferring                                           
                    a sequential file containing a plurality of objects?                                                                   


                                                       FINDINGS OF FACT                                                                    
                            Appellants invented a method, apparatus and a computer-readable                                                
                    medium for packing and unpacking objects in an electronic message to                                                   
                    facilitate the request and transfer of the objects between a client and a server.                                      
                    (Specification 5).  Particularly, the server (4) receives a message from the                                           
                    client (1) requesting a plurality of objects.  The server (4) searches a                                               
                    plurality of object databases (9a, 9b, 9c) from which it retrieves the                                                 
                    requested objects.  The server (4) then sends to the client the retrieved                                              
                    objects packed in the response message.  Upon reaching the client (1), the                                             
                    packed objects are automatically unpacked in the order indicated in the                                                
                    response message.  (Specification 7).                                                                                  
                            Halpern discloses a method for allowing a client user to select from a                                         
                    remote server location desired software components that the server delivers                                            
                    to the client in a single download and as a single file.  (Abstract).  As                                              
                    depicted in figure 1, Halpen teaches that the server, upon retrieving the                                              
                    requested software components from a database (108) and pool components                                                
                    (107), the installer set generator (109) bundles them into a custom                                                    

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