Ex Parte Williams et al - Page 2

                Appeal 2007-0764                                                                               
                Application 09/840,469                                                                         

           1          Appellants invented a system for providing a multiple browser                            
           2    interface which includes a display controller that runs the browser                            
           3    applications for each of a plurality of browsers.  (Specification p. 2.)                       
           4          Claim 1 under appeal reads as follows:                                                   
           5                 1. A system for providing a multiple browser interface                            
           6                 comprising:                                                                       
           7                       a) a plurality of displays with associated input devices;                   
           8                 and                                                                               
           9                       b) a display controller associated with said plurality of                   
          10                 displays, said display controller comprising:                                     
          11                              i) communication electronics for communicating                       
          12                       with a server running a control application; and                            
          13                              ii) a control system associated with said                            
          14                       communication electronics and adapted to:                                   
          15                                    1) run browser applications for each of said                   
          16                              plurality of displays;                                               
          17                                    2) receive input from each of said associated                  
          18                              input devices and provide the input to the control                   
          19                              application; and                                                     
          20                                    3) receive instructions for said browser                       
          21                              application from the control application; and                        
          22                              wherein said display controller is further assigned                  
          23                              one Internet Protocol (IP) address and each of the                   
          24                              browser applications is assigned a unique port                       
          25                              associated with the IP address.                                      
          26                                                                                                   
          27          The Examiner rejected claims 1, 4 to 9, 11 to 21 and 28 to 33 under 35                   
          28    U.S.C. § 103 as being unpatentable over Coppola in view of Devine and                          
          29    Kohut.                                                                                         
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