Appeal 2007-1569
Application 10/089,083
ISSUE
The issue is whether Appellants have shown that the Examiner erred
in rejecting the claims under 35 U.S.C. § 103(a). The issue turns on whether
the Nakamura reference or the Wiser reference discloses the claimed
transmitting steps, and the first and second network.
FINDINGS OF FACT
Findings with respect to the rejection of claim 1.
1. Appellants have invented a method for reserving and accessing
resources in a distribution server (#102, Figure 1) supplying
video content (Specification, page 14) to a series of client PCs
(#107, Figure 1). The distributing user, at his own PC #106,
requests a reservation for a certain time from a Server
Reservation Control Center (#101, Figure 1) across a first
network, the Internet, and receives back authentication
information through the same network. That information is
stored on the distributing user’s PC. At the reserved time, the
user presents his authorization, and transmits his content) over a
second network (#108, Figure 1) from his PC to the streaming
distribution server (#102, Figure 1). The distribution server
then distributes the content to the ultimate users across the first
network. (Brief, pages 2 and 3).
2. The Nakamura reference (See Figure 1) distributes video
content from Data Stream Storage #121 to a series of users,
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