Appeal No. 2004-0518
Application No. 09/514,227
“An administrator may define a user by completing and submitting the data
entry form for each individual user to be defined. In response, Registry Server
108 stores information defining the user in the Registry Repository 110. See
DEFINING USERS in col. 15, lines 30-35. By these actions, the first plurality
of records are hereby created and stored in the database. Win also teaches
that an administrator may complete and submit the data entry form for each role
to be defined. In response, Registry Server 108 stores information defining the
role in the Registry Repository 110. See DEFINING ROLES col. 14 lines 9-15.
Roles are defined by information identifying a name of a roll and by a functional
group in which the role resides. Role refers to job function such as sales
representative, financial analyst, etc. (col. 5, lines 18-21). By these actions, the
second plurality of records are hereby created and stored in the database.
Win further teaches that an administrator may complete and submit the data
entry form for each resource record to be defined. See DEFINING
RESOURCES col. 14, lines 25-35. By these actions, the third plurality of
records are hereby created and stored in the database.
The appellant responds to this statement by the examiner, on page 4 of the reply brief:
Nowhere does the cited Wind (sic, Win) disclose linking one first record, or
the user record, with a second record indicating an object the user may access.
Thus, although Win may assign privileges and roles to a user as the Examiner
found on page 8 of the Examiner (sic) Answer, nowhere does the cited Win
anywhere disclose the specific claimed arrangement of three types of records
associated as claimed, where one of a third records indicating an attribute of
access control is linked to one of a second records having an attribute defining
an object the user may access, where the second record is yet further linked to
one of a first records for one user that may access the object identified in the
second type of record according to the user access control limits specified in the
associated third record.
We concur with appellant. Claim 1 contains limitations to a system where there
are three types of records. The first type contains records of user information. The
second type contains records that have an attribute defining an object in a database
that
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