Appeal No. 2006-2189
Application No. 09/843,403
that claim language, provides very little help in that the cited portions of the specification use
exactly the claim language with no further explanation as to what constitutes a form
“independently usable for the service provider.”
We find the examiner’s explanation to be reasonable. That is, since the gateway
system of Doyle 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,” i.e., the host computer is the only party to use
the certification information to authenticate the user’s request. Therefore, the access
permissions are generated in a form independently usable by the service provider (host). We
realize that the claim language recites “independently usable for the service provider” and
not “independently usable by the service provider,” as postulated in the examiner’s analysis,
but we find no distinction in this language which would nullify the examiner’s analysis.
Accordingly, we will sustain the rejection of claims 1, 2, 4-6, 8-13, 15, 17, 18, and
20-24 under 35 U.S.C. § 102 (e) and, since the rejection under 35 U.S.C. § 103 over Doyle
and Misra is not separately argued, we will also sustain this rejection.
The examiner’s decision is affirmed.
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