Appeal 2007-1271
Application 10/005,583
SUMMARY OF DECISION
It is our view, after consideration of the record before us, that the
evidence relied upon supports the Examiner’s rejection of claims 1, 6-9, 12,
13, 16, and 21-23, but does not support the Examiner’s rejection of claims
2-5, 10, 11, 14, 15, 17-20, and 24. Accordingly, we AFFIRM-IN-PART. In
addition, we have sua sponte set forth new grounds of rejection for
independent claim 17 pursuant to our authority under 37 C.F.R. § 41.50(b).
THE INVENTION
The disclosed invention generally relates to a browser-controlled
scanning system and method. More particularly, the disclosed invention
relates to a system and method in which the operation of a scanning device
is controlled from a browser such that documents are scanned and, where
desired, optical character recognition is performed on the scanned
documents for subsequent display to the user with a browser (Specification
1).
The appeal contains claims 1-24. Claims 1, 9, 13, and 17 are
independent claims. Claims 1 and 17 are illustrative:
1. A method for scanning a document, comprising:
receiving a scan request from a user browser;
uploading content to the user browser;
receiving selections made with the user browser; and
scanning the document in accordance with the user selections.
17. A scanning device, comprising:
a processing device;
scanning hardware; and
memory comprising a scan control module and an embedded server,
the scan control module comprising a scanning module and an optical
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