Appeal 2007-0558
Application 09/940,462
one or more remote devices running a computer program
or group of computer programs,
wherein the communications system is based on the
Simple Object Access Protocol (SOAP) for the purpose of
providing the remote device with supervision, display, control,
configuration or programming functions of the automation
equipment, and the communications system comprises, in the
automation equipment, at least one WEB service or one WEB
client which are capable of interacting with the program of the
automation equipment, of decoding messages received from the
IP network encoded according to the SOAP protocol and of
encoding according to the SOAP protocol messages to be sent
on the IP network.
B. REJECTIONS
Claims 1-11 and 13-20 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 102(e) as
anticipated by U.S. Patent Application Pub. No. 2002/0032790
("Linderman"). Claim 12 stands rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 103(a) as
obvious over Linderman and Microsoft, Frequently Asked Questions about
XML.
II. ISSUE
The Examiner makes the following assertions.
The provisional '045, while not explicitly referring to the T-
BOX element, discusses corresponding functionality that
supports and clearly describes the subject matter. For example,
the provisional '045 states that "DaberNet software installed on
the server will run a parser filtering out the XML messages
intended for the DaberNet, and will translate these messages
into the necessary commands.'' Provisional '045, pg. 3 ¶ 2. The
provisional '045 further states that the translation functionality
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