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You are here: BAILII >> Databases >> United Kingdom Intellectual Property Office Decisions >> LG Electronics Inc (Patent) [2007] UKIntelP o33607 (12 November 2007) URL: http://www.bailii.org/uk/cases/UKIntelP/2007/o33607.html Cite as: [2007] UKIntelP o33607 |
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Summary
The application relates to an electronic document request and supply method that is based on the Extensible Markup Language (XML). More specifically the invention seeks to use what it refers to as version values to identify fragments of a document that have been updated. When a requestor seeks to obtain an updated version of the document then the version values can be used to identify those fragments of the document that have been updated since the requestor last received the document. Only the updated fragments need then be sent to the requestor and this reduces the amount of information to be sent. In one embodiment the document was a collection of television programs. Applying the four step test set out in Aerotel/Macrossan, the hearing officer found that the contribution made by the invention fell solely within the meaning of a program for a computer and the application was refused.
