Appeal No. 2005-0788
Application 09/757,951
The disclosed invention pertains to a method or
reconciling node for managing access to a digital work.
Representative claim 9 is reproduced as follows:
9. A method for managing access to a digital work, the
method for execution by a reconciling node, the method
comprising:
receiving at the reconciling node via a network a first
report, the first report being provided in response to a
transaction that provided the digital work from a content
providing node to a content requesting node, the first report
comprising a transaction identifier, the transaction conducted in
response to a request originated by the content requesting node;
receiving at the reconciling node via the network a second
report that originated from a content managing node in response
to supplying by the content managing node information to validate
the request, the second report comprising a value and a payee
identifier;
comparing at the reconciling node the value and the
transaction identifier; and
transmitting from the reconciling node onto the network a
message enabling a credit to an account corresponding to the
payee identifier, transmitting being in response to comparing.
The examiner relies on the following reference:
Ginter et al. (Ginter) 5,910,987 June 8, 1999
Claims 9-13, 17-21, 24-30 and 34-37 stand rejected under
35 U.S.C. § 102(e) as being anticipated by the disclosure of
Ginter.
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