Appeal No. 2004-1156
Application No. 09/071,594
BACKGROUND
Appellants’ invention relates to an intelligent trust management method and
system. An understanding of the invention can be derived from a reading of exemplary
claim 1, which is reproduced below.
1. In a computer system, a method of making a decision on a
proposed action of a system component, comprising:
receiving action information from the system component, the action
information comprising the proposed action including data that identifies
the proposed action relative to other actions;
obtaining a selected policy object corresponding to the proposed
action from among a plurality of policy objects, the selected policy object
obtained based on the data that identifies the proposed action;
invoking the selected policy object, the selected policy object
including executable code that dynamically obtains variable information at
the selected policy object from a source independent of the system
component and makes a decision based on the variable information; and
returning the decision to the system component.
The prior art references of record relied upon by the examiner in rejecting the
appealed claims are:
Brandt et al. (Brandt) 5,892,905 Apr. 06, 1999
(filed Dec. 23, 1996)
Grimm et al. (Grimm) 6,317,868 Nov. 13, 2001
(filed Oct. 07, 1998)
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