Appeal No. 2000-1360
Application No. 08/632,251
the resource if both the client and the server are
independently allowed the access to the resource. If not,
access to the resource is denied.
Thus, access to a resource is granted only if both the
client and the server are independently allowed access to the
resource.
We do not find this limitation taught or suggested by the
applied references. The examiner contends otherwise, stating
that Baker’s proxy server 112 has independently specified
rights to the host resources 101-105. The examiner quotes,
“...retrieves rating and rational information from resource
categorization information listing 300, and provides a manager
with a page that facilitates editing of the rating,” citing
Figure 6 and column 7, lines 40-43, and concluding that this
“implies that the server having independently specified access
rights (user clearance and resource rating) to the host
resource (network resource)” [answer-pages 10-11].
We are at a loss to understand how the examiner is
interpreting Baker to arrive at the claimed limitation of the
independently allowed access to the resource by the client and
the server. Rather, we agree with appellants that Baker’s
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