Ex Parte Nakano et al - Page 6



                Appeal 2007-0580                                                                               
                Application 09/839,000                                                                         
                (Figure 9, 602,) then Greer meets the claimed 'only updated portions of a                      
                Web page corresponding to a virtual channel are downloaded" (Answer 11).                       
                      Appellants respond that the Examiner has not explained how                               
                "enabling one or more objects of the Web page" equals downloading only                         
                the updated portions of a page and has not identified where Greer discloses                    
                that only updated portions of Web pages are updated (Reply Br. 2).                             
                      We agree with Appellants.  Greer applies a global quotient to                            
                determine when to download an entire Web page, and that the global                             
                quotient field 306 (Figure 4) can be based on object quotient fields 328                       
                which specify the magnitude of change of the particular object (ad banner,                     
                GIF, multimedia, text, frame, button) since the last update (Answer 11-12).                    
                See Greer, col. 3, l. 40 to col. 4, l. 32.  The user can determine what                        
                magnitude and categorical nature of the change will trigger a change alert                     
                (Figure 9, col. 8, ll. 1-22) or the page can simply be downloaded in addition                  
                to or in lieu of notifying the user (col. 8, ll. 63-67).  However, we find                     
                nothing that suggests that only a portion of the Web page is downloaded.                       
                Therefore, the rejection of claims 1, 3, 4, and 6 is reversed.  Claim 5 stands                 
                or falls with claims 4/1 and the rejection of claim 5 is reversed.                             

                      Comment on claim 1                                                                       
                      The Specification describes downloading only the changed portions of                     
                a Web site (page 11), but does not describe how this is accomplished.  This                    
                is not a trivial matter because not only would one have to keep track of the                   
                objects, as in Greer, but one would have to know how to request only those                     
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