Appeal 2006-2085
Application 09/810,629
1 provider; wherein the acts of analyzing, generating, and providing are
2 performed by a management service’, wherein the report is responsive to the
3 outcome derived from analyzing the information on the service provider’s:
4 1) characteristics (claim 1); 2) performance (claims 7 and 19); 3) security
5 (claims 11 and 23); and 4) availability (claims 15 and 27).” (Br. 4.)
6 The Examiner contends (Answer 3) that Gershman does not
7 specifically disclose that the service providers are ASPs and/or ISPs. To
8 overcome this deficiency of Gershman the Examiner turns to Brockman for
9 a suggestion of a management service that targets a telecommunications
10 service provider. The Examiner asserts that it would have been obvious to
11 adapt Gershman's system to telecommunications vendors such as ISPs, as
12 taught by Brockman. The Examiner adds (Answer 7) that Gershman's use of
13 the Internet and networked computing environment innately discloses
14 multiple customers.
15
16 We AFFIRM.
17 ISSUE
18 Have Appellants shown that the Examiner has failed to establish that
19 the combined teachings and suggestions of Gershman and Brockman would
20 have suggested “generating a report responsive to the outcome; and . . .
21 providing the report to at least two clients of the service provider; wherein
22 the acts of analyzing, generating, and providing are performed by a
23 management service”, wherein the report is responsive to the outcome
24 derived from analyzing the information on the service provider’s:
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