Appeal 2007-0349
Application 09/862,355
domain identification corresponding to a group of users" in Sitaraman
anticipates the limitation of determining whether to establish a new session
between a client process and a server process based on a "source identity
attribute associated with said client process" in claim 1.
Analysis
Sitaraman discloses establishing a session between a user and a proxy
server (a proxy session) in which the system maintains a count of the
number of proxied sessions for a "group of users," e.g., the employees of a
corporation. Membership in a "group of users" is not the same thing as a
"source identity attribute associated with said client process." Membership
in a "group of users" is an external criterion that has nothing to do with the
client process. As Appellant notes, a first time user in Sitaraman could be
precluded from establishing a session if other members of the group of users
have used up the available sessions, whereas the method of claim 1 limits
the number of sessions from a certain client process. Moreover, once a user
(which the Examiner finds to be the client process) establishes a session with
the proxy service, the user does not go on to establish other sessions--it is
only client processes that spawn multiple sessions that are the problem.
While Sitaraman is analogous in that it limits the establishment of new
sessions, it does so based on a different criterion than the claimed "source
identity attribute associated with said client process." Accordingly, we find
that claim 1 is not anticipated. The rejection of claims 1-8 is reversed.
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