Appeal No. 2006-2090
Application No. 10/004,925
Claim 1 is illustrative of the claimed invention, and it reads as follows:
1. A method of monitoring use of an instant messaging source user account, comprising:
receiving an instant message from a destination user;
searching a registry that identifies a set of approved destination users to determine if a
transcript of the received instant message is desired, wherein the transcript is not desired if the
destination user is identified in the registry as being an approved destination user, and wherein
the transcript is desired if the destination user is not identified in the registry as being an
approved destination user;
storing the transcript of the received instant message in a storage device in response to
determining that the transcript is desired;
analyzing the transcript for occurrences of questionable content to thereby identify at
least one portion of the transcript having questionable content; and
providing the at least one portion of the transcript to a designated monitor of the instant
messaging source user account.
The references relied on by the examiner are:
Donahue 2002/0004907 Jan. 10, 2002
(filed Jan. 11, 2001)
Fertell et al. (Fertell) 2002/0032770 Mar. 14, 2002
(filed May 25, 2001)
Claims 1 through 8, 10 through 18, 20 through 28 and 30 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C.
§ 103(a) as being unpatentable over Donahue.
Claims 9, 19 and 29 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 103(a) as being unpatentable over
Donahue in view of Fertell.
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