Appeal 2007-0719
Application 09/731,205
5. The DFE controller (16) translates received job data into a data format
executable by the marking engine (12). (Id 7.)
The Prior Art Relied upon
6. Sorkin teaches a distributed system for automatically detecting the
location of a printer and for communicating with the printer in an electronic
network having a client computer (14), a server (12) and a network printer
(24). (Title, abstract and figure 1.)
7. As depicted in Figure 8, Sorkin teaches the network server (74) and
the network printer (76) are arranged in parallel with the client computer
(72).
8. Sorkin also teaches that the client computer (72) dispatches queries,
job header and print data to the server (74), which routes the job header and
the print data to the printer (76). (Col. 5, ll. 45-48.)
9. Sorkin teaches that after receiving a job event, the printer (76) sends
an acknowledgement with its IP address to the client (72) such that the client
(72) can bypass the network server (74) to directly communicate with the
printer (76) during subsequent events by exchanging control data for
configuring, setting up or monitoring the printer. (Abstract, col. 2, ll. 33-41,
col. 5, ll. 48-59.)
10. Irie teaches a distributed system having a client (113) issuing print
commands to a server (120), which spools received print requests and
subsequently converts the print requests before they are forwarded to the
network printer (150) for execution. (Col. 8, ll. 45-50.)
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