Appeal No. 2005-1804 2 Application No. 08/882,197 a user rule page containing information automatically obtained from the target computer by a first agent, the first agent having a trigger program to filter information and to determine whether the information is relevant to the user rule page; a rulebook to provide a rule based on the user rule page, the rule controlling the content to be transmitted from a database to the target computer, the rule stored in form of a condition-action pair, the user rule page including at least one of a hardware profile indicating hardware capabilities of the target computer, a software profile indicating software used by the target computer, and a user profile including dynamic information related to a user using the target computer, the dynamic information including information on web sites visited and time spent by the user on the websites; and wherein a second agent updates information in the user rule page based upon information received from the target computer and based upon the updated user rule page finds new appropriate content indluding a second advertisement that is transmitted to the target computer. The examiner relies on the following references: Davis et al. (Davis) 5,796,952 Aug. 18, 1998 (filed Mar. 21, 1997) O’Toole, Jr. et al. (O’Toole) 6,279,112 Aug. 21, 2001 (filed Oct. 29, 1996) Claims 3-5, 17, 18, 22-25, 27-29, 32, 36, 40, 41, 45-49 and 54-57 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 103(a). As evidence of obviousness the examiner offers O’Toole in view of Davis. Rather than repeat the arguments of appellants or the examiner, we make reference to the briefs and the answer for the respective details thereof.Page: Previous 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 NextLast modified: November 3, 2007