Appeal 2007-1731
Application 10/796,051
Baker at column 7, lines 3 through 16, describes entry of a password
by a system manager, but also teaches (col. 5, ll. 59-65) that entry of a
password may be required at a user terminal.
We agree with Appellants that the rejection fails, at the least, to show
disclosure or suggestion of the “communication means” of claim 7.
Information from terminal 107 (Baker Fig. 1) is sent to proxy server 112
over private network 110 behind firewall 113. Network resources 101-105
may also be representative of servers on a public network (e.g., the Internet).
However, in neither case are an ID, password, and client address sent to a
server “via said Internet” as required by instant claim 7.
Independent claim 12 contains limitations similar to those of claim 7
for which the rejection is deficient. We therefore do not sustain the rejection
of claims 7-12, 39, and 40 under 35 U.S.C § 103(a) as unpatentable over
Baker and Hu.
We do not sustain the rejection of claim 13 (nor that of depending
claim 14) under 35 U.S.C § 103(a) over LaStrange for substantially the
reasons expressed by Appellants in the Appeal Brief. Base claim 13 requires
the functionality of a link means between the client and a server, whereby
activation of the help button (associated with the dashboard frame window)
retrieves help information from the server relating to subject matter
displayed on the content frame window. The rejection fails, at the outset, to
set forth a case for prima facie unpatentability at least in not specifying the
relied-upon “icon or symbol button” in LaStrange, the function of which the
rejection apparently proposes to modify. (See Answer 6-7; 12-13.)
LaStrange depicts a (text) browser “HELP” menu item (e.g., Fig. 2), but
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