Ex Parte Pereira - Page 2




             Appeal No. 2004-0518                                                                              
             Application No. 09/514,227                                                                        


             are linked.  (See page 4 of appellant’s specification).  Examples of each of the three            
             groups of records are shown in figures 1-3 of appellant’s specification.                          

             Claim 1 is representative of the invention and reproduced below:                                  
                   1. A profiling system for controlling access for a plurality of users to a plurality of     
                      objects located in at least one electronic database, the system comprising:              
                          a) a first plurality of records including a record for each of the plurality of      
                             users, each record having a predetermined number of attributes;                   
                          b)  a second plurality of records, each record of the second plurality of            
                             records linked to one of the first plurality of records and having at least       
                             one attribute defining at least one of a plurality of objects located in the      
                             at least one electronic database, that the user may access; and                   
                          c) a third plurality of records, wherein each record indicates an attribute of       
                             user access control, wherein one of the third plurality of records is             
                             linked to one of the second plurality of records to limit the user access         
                             control as indicated in the linked one of the third plurality of records to       
                             the database object indicated in the linked one of the second plurality           
                             of objects.                                                                       
                                                 References                                                    
                The reference relied upon by the examiner is:                                                  
                                                                                                              
             Win et al. (Win)                             6,161,139                       December 12, 2000    
             (filed Feb. 12, 1999)                                                                             









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