Appeal No. 2006-1785 Page 2 Application No. 10/768,827 a. receiving a request; b. obtaining a response associated with said request from a data source, said data source containing a plurality of requests acceptable to said target computing system and a plurality of responses, each acceptable request being associated with a response that describes the expected behavior of said target computing system upon receiving said acceptable request; and c. responding as described by said response associated with said request. The examiner relies on the following references: Bodamer 6,163,858 Dec. 19, 2000 McLain et al. (McLain) 6,295,518 Sep. 25, 2001 Ryzl US 2003/0236657 Dec. 25, 2003 (filed Mar. 12, 2001) Flynn, Peter (Flynn), “The XML FAQ”, http:/www.ucc.ie/xml The following rejections are on appeal before us: 1. Claims 15-25 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 101 as being directed to non-statutory subject matter [answer, page 3].Page: Previous 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 NextLast modified: November 3, 2007