Ex Parte Glenner et al - Page 6


               Appeal 2007-1089                                                                             
               Application 10/348,277                                                                       
                      Issue 1. Whether the combination of Yao and Fielder teaches or                        
                                  suggests receiving and annotating a plurality of media                    
                                  objects, generating a new media object, and embedding a                   
                                  first media object into a second media object.                            
                      Issue 2. Whether a person of ordinary skill in the art at the time of                 
                                  the invention would have been motivated to modify Yao                     
                                  with the teachings of Fielder.                                            
                      Issue 3. Whether the combination of Anderson and Fielder                              
                                  teaches or suggests selecting one or more portions of a                   
                                  visual object and an audio object, adding the selected                    
                                  portions to a bin component, embedding the selected                       
                                  audio portions into the selected visual portions, and                     
                                  generating a new media object via the combined portions.                  
                      Issue 4. Whether a person of ordinary skill in the art at the time of                 
                                  the invention would have been motivated to modify                         
                                  Anderson with the teachings of Fielder.                                   

                                          FINDINGS OF FACT                                                  
                      At the outset, we note that the Examiner’s factual findings are not in                
               dispute except with respect to the specific claim limitations argued by                      
               Appellants in the Briefs.  Only those arguments actually made by Appellants                  
               have been considered in this decision.  For Issues 1 and 3, we make the                      
               following findings of fact with respect to the scope and content of the prior                
               art and the differences between the claimed invention and the prior art:                     



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