Appeal No. 1997-3178
Application 08/464,069
Claim interpretation
We begin by interpreting the claims.
First, the claims all recite a "digital data structure"
(emphasis added) which distinguishes over serial numbers,
warranty information, and other information that may be
printed on the computer or on paper in non-digital form and
somehow associated with the computer. See RBr2.
Second, claim 25 recites that the digital data
structure includes "identifying information identifying the
legitimate computer user" and claim 32 recites "storing
identifying information identifying the legitimate computer
user in an original digital data structure." Neither claim
requires that the identifying information is encrypted (for
example, with the manufacturer's (trustee's) public key) as
an encrypted escrow record. We interpret the "identifying
information" to correspond to the standard identifying
information in figure 2 which is optionally encrypted as
shown at 84 in figure 4. This interpretation is consistent
with claims 29 and 36, which enumerate the information shown
in figure 2, and with claims 30, 31, 37, and 38 which
correspond to the private identifying information and
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