Appeal 2007-0666
Application 09/738,992
For its part, the last part of Cass cited by the Examiner describes
"Paper Web," (col. 16, l. 42), "a new kind of Web browser." (Id.)
"[A]n example of how Paper Web can work," (id. l. 50), follows.
Suppose [a] user is situated at a fax machine located remotely
to a host computer that is in connection with the Web. The
computer runs software to support a Paper Web browser having
an integrated fax server. The computer retrieves a Web page
and faxes a hardcopy of the retrieved page to the user. The user
marks the hardcopy to indicate a particular hypertext link that
the user wishes to follow. For example, the user circles,
underlines, or draws an X over a graphical object, text string, or
other active element representing the link. The user then faxes
the hardcopy thus marked back to the computer. The computer
determines what Web page the user has sent and what Web link
the user has indicated. The computer then follows the indicated
link to obtain a new Web page, which it faxes back to the user.
(Id. ll. 50-64.)
Although Paper Web allows a user to mark-up a hardcopy of a Web
page and fax the marked-up hardcopy to a computer, the computer does not
transmit data representing the mark-ups to other computers. Instead, it
merely obtains the Web page indicated by the user's mark-ups and faxes the
page back to the same user. Because the computer does not transmit data
representing the mark-ups to other computers, Paper Web cannot display the
mark-ups at a plurality of computers. In fact, we are unpersuaded that Paper
Web even displays the mark-ups at the computer to which the hardcopy was
faxed.
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