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                    Claim 1 is illustrative:                                                                      
                          A method for managing an electronic commerce(e-commerce)   shopping cart                
                    relating to communication between a shopper and a server over a communication                 
                    network, said method comprising the steps of:                                                 
                          determining by the server whether a shopping command of the shopper has                 
                    changed an attribute of a primary item in the shopping cart;                                  
                          after the server has determined that the shopping command has changed the               
                    attribute of the primary item in the shopping cart, identifying by the server a               
                    secondary item in the shopping cart linked to the primary item; and                           
                          changing by the server a corresponding attribute of the secondary item in               
                    response to the change in the attribute of the primary item.                                  

                                                THE REFERENCES                                                    
             Henson                        6,167,383           Dec. 26, 2000                                      
             Chandramohan et al.           6,711,619           Mar. 23, 2004                                      
                    (Chandramohan)                        (filed Dec. 15, 1999)                                   
                                                 THE REJECTIONS                                                   
                    The claims stand rejected as follows: claims 1-4, 14-22 and 24-28 under 35 U.S.C.             
             § 102(e) as anticipated by Henson, and claims 13 and 23 under 35 U.S.C. § 103 as obvious             
             over Henson in view of Chandramohan.                                                                 







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