Appeal 2007-1409
Application 09/823,626
and detecting whether an agent has enabled an event notification feature.
(Br. 14, 15 and Reply Br. 3.)
The Examiner asserts that the rejection is proper. The Examiner
asserts that paragraphs [0155] and [0156] of Gifford teach the limitation
“determining whether the particular agent has enabled notification of
account changes; and in response to detecting the event and determining that
the particular agent has enabled notification of account changes, generating
an electronic mail message describing the event and sending the electronic
mail message to the particular agent” (Answer 10-11.)
Thus, the issue before us is whether the combination of Tabb,
Woloshin, and Gifford suggests the limitation of “determining whether the
particular agent has enabled notification of account changes; and in response
to detecting the event and determining that the particular agent has enabled
notification of account changes, generating an e-mail” as recited in the
independent claims.
FINDINGS OF FACT
Tabb teaches a system which uses a relational database to generate
reports with hypertext links. Abstract. The hypertext links are used to
identify relations between the data in one report and data in another report.
(Col. 3, ll. 39-46.) The system allows for the generation of shorter reports,
wherein a user viewing the report can select a hyperlink to access further
information (drill down) contained in the linked report. (Col. 3, ll. 53-66.)
One use of the system is to present sales data as related to a sales
representative. The system improves upon the prior art wherein several sales
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