Ex Parte Steger - Page 2

                Appeal 2006-3369                                                                               
                Application 10/224,309                                                                         

                      Group 1: Claims 1, 2, 6 – 17, 21 – 32, 36 – 45 including independent                     
                      claims 1 (method of operation), 16 (apparatus), and 31 (article of                       
                      manufacture).                                                                            

                      Group 2: Claims 3-5, 18 – 20, 33 - 35, dependent claims which                            
                      include a scheduling feature.                                                            
                Claims 1 and 3 are illustrative of the claimed invention in each group:                        

                1. In a computing environment, a method of operation comprising:                               
                      receiving by the computing environment, a change of a person within                      
                an organization, the received change having employee information                               
                corresponding to the change of the person;                                                     
                      storing by the computing environment, the received employee                              
                information corresponding to the change of the person in a database;                           
                      updating by the computing environment, the database with the                             
                received employee information corresponding to the change of the person;                       
                and                                                                                            
                      automatically providing by the computing environment, to the person,                     
                one or more policy materials for compliance certification, based at least in                   
                part on relevant parts of said updated employee information, to facilitate the                 
                organization’s compliance with the one or more policy materials.                               
                3. The method operation of claim 1 further comprising:                                         
                Determining by the computing environment, if the person has fully certified                    
                compliance with the provided one or more policy materials; and scheduling                      
                by the computing environment, one or more reminders for the person to                          
                certify compliance with the one or more policy materials.                                      







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