Appeal No. 2001-0331 Page 11
Application No. 09/122,982
identity from a comparison of an individual’s biometrics sample
and personal identification code gathered during a bid step with
biometrics sample and personal identification code for that
individual gathered during a registration step and stored at a
remote site wherein there is a data processing center.” Hoffman
discloses the use of e-mail including encryption of messages
(col. 33, lines 25-68), with public and private keys (col. 31,
lines 27-30), and electronic signatures (col. 31, lines col. 32,
line 65 through col. 33, line 14). Netscape 2 discloses (page
287) that some fire walls allow e-mail traffic, which limits
security to "mail bombs" and other e-mail based attacks.
Netscape 2 also discloses encryption (page 288) and storing
copies of outgoing messages (page 330). Pegasus discloses
encryption of e-mails as well as automatically sending a copy of
the message to the sender. It is disclosed that Pegasus will
remember your preferences from one session to the next. Thus, we
find that the references generally teach the use of e-mail with
encryption of the data sent.
As stated by the court in In re Hiniker Co., 150 F.3d 1362,
1369, 47 USPQ2d 1523, 1529 (Fed. Cir. 1998) “[t]he name of the
game is the claim.” Claims will be given their broadest
reasonable interpretation consistent with the specification, and
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