Appeal 2007-0717
Application 09/993,277
1 07. Thus, such corporate recipients would route email messages to an
2 appropriate one of a plurality of distributed email servers according to
3 the country of the most qualified and available person. (FF 03).
4 08. The information extraction and routing taught by Miloslavsky applies to
5 each email flagged to go through its process, and as such, the process is
6 not sensitive to whether it is performed at the last email server in the
7 chain or to an earlier email server in the chain.
8 09. A person of ordinary skill in the art of programming email software
9 would be familiar with software coding techniques, such as object
10 oriented programming, in which processes, known as methods, are
11 equally applicable to those hierarchical elements sharing the relevant
12 characteristics, known as objects within related classes, such as email
13 routing methods to various email servers.
14 10. Therefore, a person of ordinary skill in the art would have immediately
15 envisioned Miloslavsky’s techniques as applicable anywhere along an
16 email process chain.
17 11. Therefore, because a person of ordinary skill in the art would have
18 recognized that Tarbotton’s showing of multiple email servers would
19 imply a need to accommodate Miloslavsky’s technique to multiple email
20 servers and the realization that Miloslavsky’s is applicable anywhere in
21 an email chain, the combined art applied would have suggested routing
22 email messages to an appropriate one of a plurality of distributed email
23 servers.
24 12. Miloslavsky shows email being generated at a computer (Miloslavsky,
25 Fig. 1).
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