Appeal No. 2002-0144
Application No. 09/000,759
(e.g., news articles relating to a certain subject) which the
system then retrieves and inspects for such content before
reducing the number of articles which may be of specific interest
via a target profile. However, once this is done, Herz does not
further modify the content of the user-specified data object, or
news article, in accordance with any predetermined filtering
preference, as required by the instant claims. The news articles
themselves, albeit reduced in number, are provided to the user in
Herz but the content of those news articles which are presented
to the user is not modified before providing the data object to
the client device.
In the response section of the answer, the examiner argues
that the “active queries” of Herz are treated as any other target
object (citing column 69, lines 10-13), that these active queries
are used to determine the relevant ranking of target objects for
the user and to generate a customized list of relevant target
objects. The examiner further contends that various filters
comprising user profiles are used to dynamically customize and
modify a list which is then transmitted to the user (citing Herz,
Figures 10 and 13A) (see answer-page 7).
If the examiner is arguing that the “list” presented to a
user is modified, that may be so. However, the “list” of
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