Ex parte AULT et al. - Page 8




          Appeal No. 2000-1360                                                        
          Application No. 08/632,251                                                  


          public, there is no teaching of the instant claimed subject                 
          matter nor is there any suggestion in Baker that the proxy                  
          server in Baker presents any security problem.  Rather, Baker               
          is interested in restricting access to certain sites by                     
          particular users and the determination of whether those users               
          are authenticated and able to gain access to the sites is made              
          before forwarding any request from a client to a server.  The               
          determination is not made “upon receiving a request...from a                
          server,” as claimed.                                                        
               Teper clearly does not provide for this deficiency in                  
          Baker and the examiner does not rely on Teper for this                      
          feature.  Since the combination of references does not reach                
          the claimed limitation regarding the independently specified                
          access rights of the client and the server, we do not reach                 
          the question of whether Teper provides a proper teaching of                 
          the creating of “a client security context” for combining with              
          Baker.                                                                      


               The examiner’s decision rejecting claims 1-12 under                    
          35 U.S.C. 103 is reversed.                                                  


                                      REVERSED                                        
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