Appeal No. 2001-0584
Application No. 09/034,067
shops the web for users by putting together packages for the user
based on the user’s preferences, also taking into account the
significance level given to each item in the package.
Representative independent claim 1 is reproduced as follows:
1. A method of performing computer-based on-line commerce
in which a client computer issues a group of interrelated
commercial requests and each one of a plurality of server
computers is available to service at least one of said requests,
said method, performed by an intelligent agent, comprising steps
of:
receiving the group of interrelated commercial requests from
said client computer;
finding servers which will satisfy said group of requests
using client preference levels indicating for each request at
least one preferred value which the client would like the agent
to use in finding a server to satisfy that request said finding
step also uses a client significance level indicating for a
corresponding request the relative significance of this request
in comparison to the other requests in the group; and
assembling a package of related items which satisfy the
group of interrelated commercial requests based on the finding
step.
The examiner relies on the following reference:
Janssen 5,754,850 May 19, 1998
(filed Dec. 10, 1996)
Claims 1-9 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C. 102(e) as
anticipated by Janssen.
Reference is made to the brief and answer for the respective
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