Appeal No. 2005-0476
Application No. 08/848,077
the use of the information that may apply and be enforced on the consumer’s
appliance. See page 23 of appellants’ specification. The rules are applied while
viewing the information and are different depending upon the appliance that is
being used to view the information. See page 24 of appellants’ specification.
Claim 151 is representative of the invention and reproduced below:
A control set for governance of specified information,
including the following:
a first rule or group of rules allowing a first use to be made of
the information;
a second rule or group of rules allowing the first use or a
second use to be made of the information;
a meta-rule specifying use of the first rule or group at a first
appliance or class of appliances characterized by a first set of
resources and specifying use of the second rule or group at a
second appliance or class of appliances characterized by a second
set of resources, the second set of resources including functionality
not present in the first set of resources.
THE REFERENCES
The references relied upon by the examiner are:
Halter et al. (Halter) 5,319,705 June 7, 1994
Hekmatpour 5,644,686 July 1, 1997
(filed April 29, 1994)
Stefik 5,715,403 February 3, 1998
(filed Nov. 23. 1994)
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