Patent decision

BL number
O/186/15
Concerning rights in
GB1304110.8
Hearing Officer
Mr H Jones
Decision date
20 April 2015
Person(s) or Company(s) involved
Box, Inc.
Provisions discussed
Section 1(2)(c)
Keywords
Excluded fields (refused)
Related Decisions
O/139/15

Summary

The invention is concerned with providing a preview of a file uploaded to a web-based collaboration platform on a touch screen of a mobile device. The application acknowledges that it is known to make previews of files within a collaboration platform available for viewing on web browsers and for these previews to be generated by converting from the source file to a target preview file. The invention allows previews of files to be more widely available on a wider range of mobile devices, and utilises intermediate file segments generated when converting a source file to a target preview file to then generate previews on mobile devices. The use of intermediate file segments from an earlier conversion saved within the collaboration environment reduces overall processing load when generating mobile client previews. The mobile client device can annotate and manipulate the file previews in a manner consistent with the format of the source document.

The hearing officer followed the Aerotel steps and found that the claimed invention did not make a technical contribution to the state of the art. The application was refused.

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