Appeal No. 2002-1707 Page 6
Application No. 09/211,527
and determine that communications between host1 and host2 are to be modified in
some way, e.g., encryption, decryption, address translation, etc." Id. at ll. 55-58. "All
modifications, i.e., encryption, decryption, signing and address translation are
performed on a selective basis in accordance with the contents of the rule base."
Col. 13, ll. 10-13. Although we understand the examiner to read the claimed content,
policies, and network device on the reference's packets, rules, and firewall, respectively,
we are uncertain on what portion of Shewd the examiner reads the claimed session
dependent data. We will not "resort to speculation," In re Warner, 379 F.2d 1011, 1017,
154 USPQ 173, 178 (CCPA 1967), as to the examiner's position.
For its part, Belfiore "provides an intelligent mechanism for automatically initiating
a search when a user enters text that cannot be properly interpreted as a [uniform
resource locator] URL." Col. 3, ll. 59-62. The examiner relies on the abstract of the
reference to teach modifying content provided to a user of a device. (Final Rej. at 3.)
The abstract discloses that a web "browser may modify a returned web page to highlight
search terms used in the query." Abs., ll. 21-23.
Even if Belfiore's teaching of highlighting searched terms in a returned web page
had been combined with Shewd's teaching of encrypting, decrypting, signing, or
translating the address of packets based on the contents of a firewall's rule base, we
Page: Previous 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 Next
Last modified: November 3, 2007