Appeal 2007-2091
Application 10/191,161
tailored to the printer’s spatial resolution or color depth, the data are not
provided to the printer in this structure (Br. 12). Rather, the data are first
processed into a form suitable for the output by the printer before the data
are provided to the printer (Br. 12).
Appellants argue that the Examiner concedes that Picoult does not
disclose receiving data in a structure that is tailored to the printer’s spatial
resolution or color depth and that Todaka does not disclose the same
limitation to receive data in a structure that is tailored to the printer’s spatial
resolution or color depth (Br. 13). Appellants maintain that Todaka, at best,
could disclose steps (b) and (c) of Appellants’ independent claim 1, but does
not teach or suggest step (a) (Br. 13). We disagree with Appellants’
contention and find that Todaka teaches storing the abilities of each printer
in correspondence with the network address of the printer. We find that
Todaka additionally stores a resolution, a usable paper size, a compatible
image format, and a usable number of colors (Todaka col. 3, ll. 11-14).
Additionally, we find that Todaka teaches a converting unit for
converting data received by the reception unit in accordance with the
processing ability stored in the storage unit (Todaka Abstract, ll. 5-7). We
find this teaching in Todaka to teach the processing, rearranging, and
confirming of data into a form suitable for output by the printer and
providing the processed, rearranged, and converted data to the printer over
the network, as recited in independent claim 1 in steps (b) and (c). Since
Todaka teaches the use of resolution and also the number of usable colors
which are stored for each printer, we find that the information received from
the network would have been tailored to at least one capability concerning
spatial resolution and color depth when received from its source.
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