Appeal No. 2003-1515
Application No. 09/364,014
assigned risk level, various courses of action can be recommended
in order to reduce the risk to the system (Specification, page
13).
Representative independent claim 1 is reproduced below:
1. A methodology for performing a risk assessment for
providing standardized and accurate risk indications for a
computing system, comprising:
executing a first sub-system risk test on a system, wherein
the first sub-system risk test on the system is specific to the
first sub-system;
receiving an output in response to executing the sub-system
risk test;
categorizing the output from a plurality of risk categories;
assessing a first risk level with the risk category of the
output; and
determining sub-system action based on the first sub-system
risk test and the first risk level.
The Examiner relies on the following references in rejecting
the claims:
Hill et al. (Hill) 5,047,977 Sep. 10, 1991
Skeie 5,500,940 Mar. 19, 1996
Claims 1-9, 11-22 and 24-30 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C.
§ 102(b) as being anticipated by Skeie.
Claims 10 and 23 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 103(a) as
being unpatentable over Skeie in view of Hill.
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