Ex parte POWERS, III - Page 8




          Appeal No. 1998-3399                                                        
          Application No. 08/239,138                                                  


          with the claimed context manager.  Although Nye discloses on                
          page 441 that the routines and database structures used for                 
          managing user preferences are called the resource manager,                  
          there is no indication that the resource manager performs the               
          function of retrieving and controlling execution of the                     
          context modules.  Further, the examiner has provided no                     
          explanation to remedy this deficiency.  Since all of claims 6               
          through 9 and 14 require a context manager which retrieve and               
          controls the execution of the context modules, which we find                
          lacking from Nye and Quercia, we cannot sustain the rejection               
          of claims 6 through 9 and 14.                                               


















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