Appeal No. 2005-2338
Application No. 09/754,001
be a user identifier that is unique to an online service provider and allows the
user access to several on line services. Our interpretation of this limitation is
consistent with the appellants’ specification which states, on page 8, referring to
the GUID, “a user is able to access several online services through an online
service provider without having to manage a logon ID and password pair.”
Emphasis added. Throughout appellants’ specification we find that the
discussion of GUID is limited to an online provider to allow a user to access a
plurality of services, see e.g. pages 9 and 10 of appellants’ specification. Thus
we find no discussion of the GUID being used across all systems and being
unique across all systems, rather we find that appellants’ specification discusses
the identifier being unique to the service provider and silent as to being unique to
other service providers.
We find that Teper teaches a system whereby a user can access service
provider web sites on the Internet, and the user does not give his personal
information for billing to the service providers but rather an online broker site is
used to handle user authentication and billing. Thus, the user can access and
use the services of several online service providers while using only one account,
with the online broker. See Teper Column 2, lines 31 through 48. In Teper’s
system the user registers with the online broker and his personal and billing
information is kept with the online broker. See column 2, lines 57-67. The user
is assigned a unique ID. See column 3, line 1. When a user contacts a service
provider’s web site, a series of communications occur where the user ID and
password are transferred to the service provider. The service provider then
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