Appeal No. 2002-1707 Page 4
Application No. 09/211,527
is not based on policies of the network device or session dependent information."
(Appeal Br. at 6.)
In addressing the point of contention, the Board conducts a two-step analysis.
First, we construe claims at issue to determine their scope. Second, we determine
whether the construed claims would have been obvious.
1. CLAIM CONSTRUCTION
"Analysis begins with a key legal question -- what is the invention claimed?"
Panduit Corp. v. Dennison Mfg. Co., 810 F.2d 1561, 1567, 1 USPQ2d 1593, 1597 (Fed.
Cir. 1987). Here, independent claim 9 recites in pertinent part the following limitations:
"providing session dependent information associated with the device to a network
device having stored policies which are based on the session dependent information;
and automatically modifying the content provided by the network device to the device
based on the policies and the provided session dependent information so as to modify
the content provided to the user of the device." Independent claims 23 and 37 recite
similar limitations. Accordingly, the limitations require modifying content provided to a
user of a device based on policies stored in, and session dependent data provided to, a
network device.
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