Appeal No. 1997-1354
Application No. 08/432,610
NEW GROUND OF REJECTION
Pursuant to the provisions of 37 CFR § 1.196(b), we
hereby enter the following new rejection.
Claims 1 through 12 are rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 112,
second paragraph, for failing to particularly point out and
distinctly claim the subject matter which the Appellant
regards as the invention.
Appellant’s claim 1, section (iii) recites that the
user’s browser is caused to ask for a second username and a
second password, and to transmit these in the http
authorization header. First, we cannot find any explanation
in the claims or specification as to how this is caused. Do
all browsers automatically ask for a username and password
when access is denied? Second, what is the second username
and password, is it the same (or can it be the same) or
different than the first username and password? We find no
explanation in the specification of a second username and
second password. Third, does the second username and password
automatically get transmitted in the http header, does the
first username and
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