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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