The opinion in support of the decision being entered today was not written for publication and is not binding precedent of the Board. Paper No. 17 UNITED STATES PATENT AND TRADEMARK OFFICE BEFORE THE BOARD OF PATENT APPEALS AND INTERFERENCES Ex parte MANUEL V. PEREIRA III Appeal No. 2004-0518 Application No. 09/514,227 ON BRIEF Before: GROSS, BLANKENSHIP and NAPPI, Administrative Patent Judges. NAPPI, Administrative Patent Judge. DECISION ON APPEAL This is a decision on appeal under 35 U.S.C. § 134 of the final rejection of claims 1, 4 through 6, 10, 12, 13, 18, 21 through 23, 27, 30 through 56, which constitute all the claims in the application. Invention The invention relates to a profiling system for controlling users’ access to a plurality of objects in a database. The system makes use of three types of records that -1-Page: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 NextLast modified: November 3, 2007