Appeal No. 2006-1314
Application No. 09/823,084
The appellants argue that the examiner improperly equated Graham’s service provider
protocol adapter servlets with the invention’s communication proxy provided to a broker by a
service provider [Brief p. 7]; improperly equated Graham’s client lookup mechanism with the
invention’s interaction mechanism between matching clients and service providers [Brief p. 8];
and equated Graham’s duty of the client to provide a mechanism of interaction with the
invention’s duty of the provider [Brief, p. 11].
The examiner responds that, as to the first two arguments, Graham’s protocol adapter
servlets are for both the client and service provider and are provided by the USBIM, being a
registry service, and thus support reading Graham’s service provider protocol adapter servlets on
the invention’s communication proxy provided to a broker [Answer, p. 8]. As to the first and
third arguments, the examiner responds that claim 1 is silent as to who provides the
communication proxy [Answer, p. 9].
We first note that, as indicated by the examiner, claim 1 is indeed silent as to who provides
the proxy. We next note that the USBIM client protocol adapter servlets listen for client lookup
requests and look up a matching service provider [col. 2 lines 37 through 39]. This results in an
interchange mechanism [col. 7 lines 32 through 34], i.e. a standing in by one for another, which
is a proxy. We further note that claim 1 requires that metadata describe only a proxy, a protocol,
an uncharacterized type, and a proxy location, and that, as noted above, the request for service
contains metadata, which is simply data characterizing data, describing the communication proxy
associated with the request, that includes service (i.e a type), name (implicitly identifying
location within USBIM) and protocol [col. 7 lines 35 through 39] and implicitly the proxy itself.
Accordingly we are persuaded that the examiner is correct that it is appropriate to equate reading
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