Appeal 2007-0728
Application 09/954,796
1 FACTS PERTINENT TO THE ISSUES
2 The following Findings of Fact (FF), supported by a preponderance of
3 substantial evidence, are pertinent to the above issues.
4 01. Parthesarathy describes one of its claimed inventions as4
5 A method for updating software, comprising the steps of:
6 installing software on a local computer;
7 creating a shortcut link for launching the installed software, wherein
8 said installed software is identified in the shortcut link by version
9 data;
10 subscribing to a software update channel;
11 detecting through said software update channel that a new software
12 update is available on a remote computer;
13 recording data relating to said new software update on said local
14 computer, wherein said data comprises new version data;
15 comparing said version data stored in said shortcut link with version
16 data from said new software update when said installed software is
17 launched using said shortcut link; and
18 updating said installed software when said new version data is more
19 current than said version data stored in said shortcut link
20 … further comprising:
21 notifying a user that the new software update is available; and
22 querying the user to determine whether the user desires to load the
23 new software update, wherein said updating of the installed software
24 is performed when, in response to the querying step, the user indicates
25 a desire to load the new software update.
26 (Parthesarathy, Claim 10, rewritten as it would appear in independent
27 form).
28 02. A need is something required or wanted3.
3 American Heritage Dictionary (4th ed. 2000).
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