Appeal 2007-0434 Application 10/041,207 Those skilled in the art also would have understood that assigning a unique identifier to an image would have facilitated its individual handling. We agree with the Examiner that the need to handle an image individually, and the fact that a unique URI or URL would have facilitated individual handling thereof, would have prompted a person of ordinary skill in the relevant field to assign an URI or URL to individual images. The Appellants' aforementioned argument that assigning an URI or URL to individual images would frustrate Squilla's categorization or images appears to be based on the premise that combining teachings of Squilla and Hobbes would have necessitated replacing Squilla's selection categories with the URIs or URLs. To the contrary, the Examiner has proposed to employ the URIs or URLs "as another mean[s]," (Answer 15), to identify images. In other words, the images would be identified both individually by URIs or URLs and collectively by categories. Because the categories would be supplemented (by the URIs or URLs), rather than eliminated, a user would still be able to use the selection categories to categories images. Therefore, we affirm the obviousness rejections of claims 9, 10, 12-16, 22, 24-27, and 31-33. IV. ADDITIONAL OBSERVATIONS Our reversal of the rejections of claims 1, 3-8, 11, 17-21, 23, and 28- 30 was based on the Examiner's inability to show that Squilla assigns to a digital image an identifier that is unique to a network. As mentioned regarding claims 9, 10, 12-16, 22, 24-27, and 31-33, however, a person of ordinary skill in the relevant field would have been prompted to assign an 10Page: Previous 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 Next
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