Appeal No. 2003-1225
Application No. 09/223,765
BACKGROUND
The invention is directed to a vault controller that manages resources in a secure
environment (e.g., in an electronic business system). Vaults are personalized storage
areas on a disk to which only the owner has access, using a vault access certificate.
Claim 1 is reproduced below.
1. In an electronic business system, a vault controller supervisor managing
the interaction in a secure manner using PKI between end users and applications
running in the system, comprising:
a) a web server; and
b) a shared object library coupled to the server and including a
supervisor performing vsSupervisor Initialize and vsSupervisor
Service functions for handling user independent, multi-threaded,
persistent and stateful vault processes running in a secure
environment linked to the user.
The examiner relies on the following references:
Carroll 6,105,131 Aug. 15, 2000
(filed Nov. 26, 1997)
Claims 1-4, 7, and 8 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 102 as being anticipated
by Carroll.
Claims 9-12 and 20-24 stand allowed. The examiner has withdrawn the rejection
of claims 5, 6, and 13-19.
We refer to the Final Rejection (Paper No. 9) and the Examiner’s Answer (Paper
No. 16) for a statement of the examiner’s position and to the Brief (Paper No. 15) for
appellants’ position with respect to the claims which stand rejected.
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