Appeal No. 2006-2184
Application No. 09/819,427
We find that such stored personal profile information reasonably includes
“information as to products that the customer uses” as claimed. In fact,
information regarding a user’s favorite sizes and shapes alone reasonably meets
this limitation. Certainly, a user’s favorite size suggests a preferred product size.
But also storing a user’s job title as well as personal and business areas of
interest would not only reasonably suggest what products that a customer uses
both personally and professionally, but also include information about the
customer’s business as claimed. For example, stored data for a user who is an
attorney and an avid hiker would reasonably suggest to the skilled artisan that
the customer uses paper products and hiking footwear.
Dedrick provides electronic information to the end user in a wide variety of
formats including audio, video, graphics, animation, text, etc. [Dedrick, col. 4,
lines 44-48]. Also, end users access the system via client interfaces 23 that can
be personal computers [col. 5, lines 2-19]. Although Dedrick does not expressly
disclose end users accessing such content via personalized web pages,
presenting multimedia content via web pages to end users’ personal computers
with local and wide area network connectivity as in Dedrick nevertheless would
have been well within the level of the skilled artisan – even at the time of
Dedrick’s invention (1994). The advantages of using web pages – namely the
ability to present customized text, graphics, video, and audio content in multiple
browsers in a cross-platform environment – would have been readily apparent to
skilled artisans at the time of the invention.
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