Appeal 2007-0437
Application 09/982,224
Representative independent claim 1 is reproduce below:
1. A method for collaborating access to a drawing document on a
network, comprising storing a drawing document on a server,
receiving, in the server, a request to open the drawing document;
in response to the request, the server establishing a collaboration
session, wherein during the collaboration session, the sever permits two or
more collaborators to view and work simultaneously across the network on
the drawing document stored on the server, wherein each of the two or more
collaborators view, in real time, a modification to the drawing document
made by another collaborator;
receiving, the server, a first heartbeat command regularly transmitted
at a defined interval, wherein the first heartbeat command comprises a
command to modify the drawing document from a first one of the
collaborators in the collaboration session; and
the server distributing the command to modify the drawing document
as part of a second heartbeat command to other ones of the collaborators in
the collaboration session.
The following references are relied on by the Examiner:
Brown US 6,067,551 May 23, 2000
Caronni US 6,195,751 B1 Feb. 27, 2001
Kumar US 6,342,906 B1 Jan. 29, 2002
(Filed February 2, 1999)
All claims on appeal stand rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 103. As
evidence of obviousness, the Examiner relies upon Brown in view of Kumar,
further in view of Caronni.
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