Appeal No. 2006-2354 Page 8
Application No. 09/877,157
16. Abraham discloses allowing system administrators to group users of
the LAN together. Abraham, page 14, lines 30-32.
17. The system administrator can create (“add”) subgroups to a root group
and then move the data elements (“add users as members”) to the
subgroup via the graphical user interface. Abraham, page 15, lines 8-
13; see also page 29, lines 19-27.
18. Abraham teaches that the user inherits all of the policies and quotas of
the group to which it has become a member. Abraham, page 30, lines
2-3.
19. After the system administrator has added a new group, a record for the
group is added to a user group table in a database. Moriconi, page 28,
lines 3-5.
20. A record for a user is added to a transmit list stored in a database and
is used to construct a user policy table that is ultimately provided to
the filter executive. Moriconi, page 24, lines 25-32.
21. A filter executive loads the policies for each user from the database
and generates a policy (“set of rules”) for each user. These rules are
used by the filter engine to block unauthorized services or
information. Abraham, page 10, lines 32-34; see also page 13, lines
26-31 and Figures 15A-15C.
22. As such, we find that both prior art references teach or suggest the
method of claim 1 except that the method is used to generate a
security policy instead of a privacy policy.
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