Appeal No. 2005-0946
Application No. 09/915,448 Page 8
Figure 20 illustrates a display login implemented with an
agent 2000 that guides the user through the process of
interacting with the system to customize and personalize various
system components to gather information and interact with the
user's personal requirements (col. 45, lines 36-42). From the
disclosure of Gershman that, as shown in figure 20, the system's
PDA interacts with the user, we find the PDA of Gershman's system
to be an interactive device. We consider the term "interactive,"
as it would be understood by an artisan, to refer to the back-
and-forth dialog between the user and the computer2. We find no
definition of the term in appellant's specification that would
preclude the term from being defined as set forth, supra.
The Intelligent Agent Coordinator 2580 of figure 25 is also
the user's interface to the system. The Intelligent Agent
coordinator has four primary responsibilities:
1) monitoring user activities,
2) handling information requests,
3) maintaining each user’s profile, and
4) routing information to and from users and to and from the
other respective agents. (Gershman, col. 47, lines 47-51).
2 TechWeb TechEncyclopedia, ©1981-2005 the Computer Language Company. A
copy of the definition is enclosed with the Decision.
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