Appeal No. 2003-0325
Application No. 08/775,077 Page 5
object, and that authentication agent 512 of Loucks relates to
appellants' authentication agent. Appellants assert (brief,
page 5) that Loucks is silent as to an information object
including an information segment, and (brief, page 6) that:
There is no information object that automatically
establishes communications with a predetermined
authenticator for the purpose of authenticating an
information segment. Authentication in Loucks does
not occur as a result of an attempt to access an
information segment in an automatically-authenticating
information object, but rather as a result of the
first computer directing a service request to a known
service provider.
It is further argued (id.) that:
Applying the Examiner’s rationale, this would require
that the authentication agent 512 of Loucks be
configured to authenticate the service 514. However,
the authentication agent 512 of Loucks is instead
configured to authenticate that the requestor 504 is
authorized to use the service 514.
and that (id.):
Loucks nowhere suggests that the service 514 invokes
the authentication agent 512 for the purpose of
authenticating the service 514 itself.
From our review of Loucks, we find that Loucks is directed
to providing authentication 502, 512 to enable a requestor 504
to access a service 514 (figure 5). As shown in the figure, a
requestor 504 requests authentication from authentication agent
502 through messages 520. A second machine 513 contains a
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