Appeal 2007-0728
Application 09/954,796
1 21. Parthesarathy shows sending email notifications of software updates for
2 distribution following the user’s subscription to such updates (Parthesarathy,
3 col. 2, ll. 16-22).
4 22. Such emails that the user may respond to are suggestions of software
5 programs to be loaded based upon the user’s responses in the subscription.
6 23. Thus, Parthesarathy shows suggesting software programs based upon the
7 user responses.
8 24. Parthesarathy teaches a method to automate software update distribution
9 (Parthesarathy, col. 2, ll. 2-7).
10 25. Bradford teaches methods to refine queries, such as those of Parthesarathy
11 (Bradford, col. 1, ll. 10-16).
12 26. Himmel teaches a way to connect two devices with a wireless bus, that
13 requires system configuration, which in turn requires software distribution
14 according to the configuration. (Himmel, col. 1, ll. 6-10; col. 2, l. 66 – col. 3,
15 l. 2).
16 27. Kroening teaches a method for distributing software components and
17 updates (Kroening, col. 1, ll. 40-46).
18 28. Thus, a person of ordinary skill in the art would have looked to combining
19 Bradford, Kroening and Parthesarathy as implementation details of the
20 software distribution required by Himmel’s configuration setting.
21 29. Kroening shows presenting a user with a list of software components that
22 have updates available (Kroening, col. 9, ll. 36-38 and Figure 4, block 420).
23 30. Updated software is different from the original software.23
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