Appeal No. 2001-1461
Application 08/921,130
BACKGROUND
The invention relates to a method and system of routing
requests for authorized approval.
Claim 1 is reproduced below.
1. An automated method for authorized approval
processing, comprising the steps of:
receiving from a user a request for approval;
in response to receiving the request, automatically
determining a type of the request;
automatically determining a designated number of
approvals required for authorization of the request based on
the type of the request;
automatically determining a valid agent to provide one
of the designated number of approvals required for
authorization of the request;
automatically routing the request to the valid agent
for the approval; and
automatically determining if the designated number of
approvals required for authorization of the request have
been obtained.
The examiner relies on the following reference:
Gardner et al. (Gardner) 5,758,327 May 26, 1998
Claims 1-4, 6-9, 11, 122, and 14-25 stand rejected under
35 U.S.C. § 102(e) as being anticipated by Gardner.
2 Claim 12 is improperly included in the grouping of
claims. Since claim 12 depends on claim 5, it cannot be rejected
without rejecting claim 5. Accordingly, we put claim 12 in with
the obviousness rejection of claim 5.
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