Appeal No. 2003-0072
Application No. 09/032,407
by the seller in an amount indicated in the certificate as
digitally signed; and
(e) said seller presenting the commercial relationship
certificate that was digitally signed by the first party to the
second party over the unsecure network in exchange for the
payment, the second party referencing the amount indicated in
said commercial relationship certificate in making the payment to
the seller from the financial resources accessible by the first
party.
The examiner relies on the following references:
Matyas et al. (Matyas) 4,941,176 Jul. 10, 1990
Rosen (407) 5,455,407 Oct. 3, 1995
Rosen (518) 5,557,518 Sep. 17, 1996
Tozzoli et al. (Tozzoli) 5,717,989 Feb. 10, 1998
(filed Oct. 13, 1994)
Pare Jr. et al. (Pare) 5,764,789 Jun. 9, 1998
(filed Sep. 27, 1996)
Ginter et al. (Ginter) 5,892,900 Apr. 6, 1999
(filed Aug. 30, 1996)
Schneier, “Applied Cryptography”, Second Edition, Protocols,
Algorithms, and Source Code In C, John Wiley & Sons, Inc. (1996),
pp. 37-39, 58-59 and 483-502.
Claims 1, 13-17 and 19-30 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C.
§ 103. As evidence of obviousness, the examiner offers Ginter,
Schneier, Pare and Rosen(518) with regard to claims 1, 13-17 and
19. The examiner offers Ginter, Schneier and Rosen (518) with
regard to claims 20 and 21 and the examiner offers Ginter,
Schneier, Matyas, Rosen (407) and Tozzoli with regard to claims
22-30.
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