Appeal No. 2004-0518 Application No. 09/514,227 are linked. (See page 4 of appellant’s specification). Examples of each of the three groups of records are shown in figures 1-3 of appellant’s specification. Claim 1 is representative of the invention and reproduced below: 1. A profiling system for controlling access for a plurality of users to a plurality of objects located in at least one electronic database, the system comprising: a) a first plurality of records including a record for each of the plurality of users, each record having a predetermined number of attributes; b) a second plurality of records, each record of the second plurality of records linked to one of the first plurality of records and having at least one attribute defining at least one of a plurality of objects located in the at least one electronic database, that the user may access; and c) a third plurality of records, wherein each record indicates an attribute of user access control, wherein one of the third plurality of records is linked to one of the second plurality of records to limit the user access control as indicated in the linked one of the third plurality of records to the database object indicated in the linked one of the second plurality of objects. References The reference relied upon by the examiner is: Win et al. (Win) 6,161,139 December 12, 2000 (filed Feb. 12, 1999) -2-Page: Previous 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 NextLast modified: November 3, 2007