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`INTHEUNITEDSTATES PATENT AND TRADEMARK OFFICE
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`AMENDMENT "4"
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`APPLICANT:
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`Heinz Mattes
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`GROUP ART UNIT: 2743
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`SERIALNO,:
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`081877,488
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`EXAMINER: G. Eng
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`FILINGDATE:
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`l:iu;.e77,1997
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`INVENTION:
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`APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR RECORDING,
`COMMI.INICATING AND ADMINISTERING DIGITAL IMAGES
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`Hon. Assistant Commissioner for Patents
`Washington D.C. 20231
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`In response to the Office Action dated June 5, 1998, amend the above-idenffie&-rr
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`application as follows:
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`INTHE CLAIMS
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`In claim 1, line 4, change)Ealll'to -call'-.
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`REMARKS
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`In the office Action, the Examiner objected to claim 1 on the basis ofpunctuation,
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`rejected claims 1,2,5 - 12,16 and 19 - 24 as obvious over Parulski in view of Kawamura,
`rejected claims 4 and 18 as obvious over Parulski in view of Kawamura in further view of
`Ishii, rejected claims 13 and 14 as obvious ovel Parulski in view of Kawamura further in
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`view of Morin, rejected claim 15 as obvious over Parulski in view of Kawamura firther in
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`view of Nguyen, and indicated that claims 3 and 17 would be allowable if redrafted in
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`independent form.
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`Claim objection
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`The correction suggesied for claim t has been entered, as set forth above'
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`35 U.S.C. S103
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`The parulski reference discloses a telephone with a digital camera that can be attached
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`to the telephone or provided as a combinbtion unit. The telephone contains a small screen fot
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`displaying the registererl digital image as well as a keypad for inputting a telephone number,
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`a processor (cPlI), and a storage for storing the digital images. Parulski firther describes the
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`transmission of the digital images via a radio telephone network to one or a plurality of
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`telefax devices at which the output of the transmitted images occurs directly as a telefax. The
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`telefax devices that receive the transmitted image data are not servers, but soiely serve as
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`output devices.
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`Parulski does not once suggest that other data could be added to the image
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`information or that the data be such that certain sequential or structural aspects could be
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`potentially infened from it.
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`The present invention is based on the problenr of creating a communication system
`for recording and administering digital images wherein the administering and archiving of
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`digital images occurs simply, rapidly, and synoptically. Because ofthe pure output ofthe
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`transmission ofdigital images via the telefax device in Parulski' this reference does not
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`involve an administering ofdigital images. A different objective thus underlies the invention
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`as compared to Parulski. In Parulski there is no reference to a server. Accordingly, the
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`arrangement of the server accordirig to the invention is not indicated in Parulski, either.
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`In the Kawamura reference, the images registered by a digital camera are to be
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`reduced for indexing. The reference discloses a system for classiffing image data based on
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`the time that the images are registered. Registered images are analyzed and grouped with
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`respect to the time of their registering, or as to whether the images are registered during a
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`continuous photography mode. Images hre also grouped by the attitude (landscape or poltrait
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`position) ofthe camera The images classified using this systern are reduced and recorded
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`within one image. It is the continuous photography mode that determines the grouping of the
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`images. . ln the reference, storage of the images is local to the camera. The images are
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`recorded in a memory card. However, Kawamura does not suggest a communication system
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`which has a telephone unit with a digital camera and a communication network for
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`transmitting the digital images to a selver.
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`The present invention is thus based on a different problem than Kawamura.
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`A communication system, or respectively, a method for registering and administering
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`digital images is created by the present invention with which it becomes possible in the most
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`widely varying fields of application to register images at an arbitrary location by a user, to
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`transmit the stored images to a server ov€r a commrmication network via a telephone unit in
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`which the images afe stored, and to enable an automatic archiving in the server of the image
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`data registered at a completely different location rapidly and in uncomplicated fashion.
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`Such a scenario is not even suggested in Parulski or in Kawamura' Based on Parulski'
`there is no indication of expanding, the telephone described in Parulski into a communication
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`systemwithan,,intelligentserver.,,either.Thepersonskilledintheartthusdoesnotfindthe
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`inventionobviousonthebasisofParulski,evenwhenthisisconsideredjointlywith
`Kawamuta. The invention is thus inventive relative to Parulski and Kawamura in
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`combination.
`The Ishii reference teaches speech recogrition unit for dialing a telephone by voice
`input of the number to be dialed. This refelence has nothing to do with registering digital
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`imagesorwithclassiffingtheimagesonaservelaccordingtoaclassificationsystem.There
`is no convincing showrng as to why one of ordinary skill in the art would tum to this
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`referenceforateachingtoimproveParulskiandKawamura'eitherindividualiyorin
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`combination.
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`Morindiscloseslarrguageacquisitionwhichworkswithatelephonesystem.Digital
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`imagehandlingorregisteringisnotsuggestedortaught.onewouldnottumtothisleference
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`in combination with Parulski and Kawamura'
`The Nguyen reference relates to database management over the Intemet using SQL
`queries. By providing output in HTML format' the user may view the output reports on the
`Internet. There is no teaching or incentive to combine this reference w.ith a digital registering
`apparatus or a telephone apparatus' There is nothing in the art which would lead one of
`ortlinary skill to combine this reference with Parulski and Kawamura'
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`Conclusion
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`Thus. the invention as defined in the claims is not taught or suggested by the
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`combined teachings ofthe cited art. Accordingly, early favorable reconsideration ofthe
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`claims is hereby requested. The claims 3 and 17 are not now being redrafted in independent
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`form, although Applicant noles the indication of allowable subject matter.
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`in A. Robinson @eg. No. 3l,870)
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`CERTIFICATE OF MAILING
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`I hereby certifi that this conespondence is being deposited with the united states
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`The Assistant Commissioner for Patents
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`on September 8, 1998.
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