Appeal No. 2003-0325
Application No. 08/775,077 Page 7
determination are returned in a reply message 412. The requestor
receives the reply 412 and extracts authentication ack 419 and
compares it to authentication ack 534 previously received from
local authentication agent 502. If the two acks are bitwise
equal, the requestor is assured of the remote service's identity
(col. 8, line 56 through col. 9, line 50).
From our review of Loucks, we do not agree with the examiner
that service 514 can be considered to be the information object,
because service 514 does not request service, but rather, allows
requestor 504 to access the service 514. In addition, we agree
with appellants (reply brief, page 2) that the service of Loucks
does not include an information segment to be authenticated.
Instead, it is to the service that the request for service is
authenticated. We further agree with appellants (id.) that:
Nor can the service 514 correspond to the information
segment according to the invention, since unlike the
information segment, the service is not included in an
information object, nor is it the subject of a request
for authentication.
From our review of the examiner's position, we find that the
examiner was cognizant that in Loucks, a requestor obtains
authentication in order to obtain access to a service 514, and
does not permit the information segment of the information object
to be accessed if the responsive communication from the
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