Appeal No. 2002-1079
Application No. 09/124,540
recitation “merely reads on the fact that new messages are stored (see Figure 4).”
(Final Rejection at 4-5.)
Malone discloses, at column 6, line 40 et seq. that collections of objects may be
grouped together into objects called Folders. Agents may automatically process
information on behalf of the users. An agent may be triggered by events such as the
arrival of new mail. When an agent is triggered it applies a set of rules to a specified
collection of objects, and performs actions such as receiving, classifying, mailing, and
deleting objects or object-specific actions.
Malone further teaches that objects may be added to a folder (e.g., a Folder
object) in two ways: automatically; or manually. In either case, the folder will contain
links to the objects, rather than the objects themselves. Col. 9, ll. 25-35.
The examiner also relies on material at column 11 of Malone for teaching the
claimed step that includes “automatically and dynamically establishing a link between
the digital information object and each concept node....” We find the following
description at column 11 of the reference.
Creating Agents and Rules
In some cases, agents can take actions automatically on behalf of
their users. For instance, FIG. 4 shows an example of a simple agent
designed to help a user process incoming mail. When an agent is
triggered, it applies a set of rules to a collection of objects in a folder. The
agent in FIG. 4 is applied to objects in the New Mail folder and is triggered
by the arrival of new mail. That is, when mail is retrieved to the
workstation, the mail program automatically inserts links to the new
messages into the user's New Mail folder and these New Links trigger the
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