Appeal No. 2006-2189
Application No. 09/843,403
application to store and administrate various kinds of data for authentication, increasing the
load on each device.
The examiner responds by arguing that the claim limitation of “generation of the
access permissions in a form independently usable for the service provider” may be
interpreted broadly, yet reasonably, so that Doyle anticipates. In particular, the examiner
contends that Doyle’s gateway system generates the certificate and signature in response to a
request by a user for certification information and the certification information is
authenticated at the host system in order to grant the requesting user access to the desired
applications. It is the examiner’s position that this certification information meets the
limitation of the claimed access permissions, and that because the gateway system generates
the certification information for the host computer to authenticate the user’s application
request, the certification information is generated in a form independently usable by the host
computer (answer-page 7). Moreover, the examiner contends that since the host computer is
the only party in the system of Doyle capable of authenticating the user’s request based on
the certification information, this meets the instant claim language regarding “independently
usable for the service provider.”
Since the outcome of this case depends on whether the examiner’s broad
interpretation of the phrase, “generates the access permissions in a form independently
usable for the service provider” is warranted, it would be helpful to determine what, exactly,
appellants intended by that language. Page 9, lines 17-20, and page 10, lines 16-18, of the
instant specification, referenced by appellants at page 3 of the brief for an understanding of
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