Appeal 2007-1554
Application 10/844,387
The Examiner found, as illustrated in the block diagram below, that XLST is
an XML based language used for the transformation of XML documents that is
well known in the art. (Answer P. 11)
Illustrated above is a block diagram of the XLST and XML relationship.
Ginter discloses a trusted electronic go-between 4700 used as an “impartial
overseer ... [to] document [an electronic] transaction” (Ginter col. 22, ll. 52-53).
Ginter discloses a trusted electronic go-between 4700 used in an electronic
transaction to maintain a secure archive of data, receipts, and other information
about transmissions senders send to recipients (Ginter, col. 22, ll. 5-59).
Ginter discloses that the parties to the transaction delegate to the go-between
4700 the creation of a contract based on data entered by each party (Ginter, col. 23,
ll.61-66) so that no one party can change the data entered by the other and so
protect the transaction from un-agreed to modification. Thus, the details in the
transaction record are protected from modification by the parties to the transaction.
Ginter discloses "[s]teganography can be used to encode electronic
fingerprints and/or other information into an item to prevent deletion” (Ginter,
col. 7, ll. 55-67).
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