Appeal 2007-1340
Application 09/996,125
Figure 3 shows status indicators having the form of selectively
illuminated icons with colors distinguishing the currently displayed
Web page as entirely new, partly old, or entirely old. Figure 8 shows
a status indicating icon placed inside a button icon representing a
reload button selector.
19. Gong does not teach that the user may decide to retrieve a Web page
partly from cache and partly from the originating network server.
(Passim.)
Banga
20. Banga describes a method for transferring and displaying Web pages
for low-speed connections to a network. (Paragraph 0001.) Banga is
concerned with latency and the desire to make better use of the
caching ability of Web browsers. (Paragraphs 0002 & 0006.) The
method taught by Banga "relies on the retrieval of a cached version of
a requested [Web] page and the subsequent transmission . . . of only
the differences between the cached version and the current version."
(Paragraph 0019.)
PRINCIPLES OF LAW
"Section 103 forbids issuance of a patent when 'the differences
between the subject matter sought to be patented and the prior art are such
that the subject matter as a whole would have been obvious at the time the
invention was made to a person having ordinary skill in the art to which said
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