Appeal No. 2006-0773
Application 09/845,362
We reverse the aforementioned rejections. We need to address only the
independent claims, i.e., claims 1 and 19.
Claims 1 and 19 require that a server identifies a secondary item in a shopping cart
linked to a primary item in the shopping cart, and changes a corresponding attribute of the
secondary item in response to a change in an attribute of the primary item.
Henson discloses an online store user interface for enabling custom configuration,
pricing and ordering of a computer system via the Internet (col. 1, lines 18-21). A user can
edit or delete contents of a shopping cart, and merchandising recommendations such as
upgrade or cross-sell recommendations can be provided to the user based upon the
contents of the shopping cart (col. 9, lines 49-60; col. 10, lines 7-16).
The examiner argues (answer, pages 8-9):
In Henson, commerce application 14 comprising the configurator and cart
teaches the step 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 an
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 (see col. 15, lines 31-45 and
col. 3, lines 12-29 which teach that the configurator, which is part of the
commerce application 14, everything including
the computer system [primary item], its add-on options which correspond to
the claimed secondary items is specific to a given computer system [primary
item] and therefore when a user wants to change the computer system the
configurator would change both the primary item and the add-on options to the
changed computer system[)].
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