Appeal No. 2006-2509
Application No. 10/001,431
BACKGROUND
The invention relates to a method of defining security conditions of a computer
system. Representative claim 1 is reproduced below.
1. A method of defining the security condition of a computer system,
comprising:
generating a human-readable and machine-readable vulnerability
description language (VDL) file specifying:
an identity of an attack;
at least one attribute of the specified attack;
at least one policy definition with respect to the specified attack;
and
at least one attribute of the specified policy definition.
The examiner relies on the following references:
Vaidya US 6,279,113 B1 Aug. 21, 2001
(filed Jun. 4, 1998)
Chefalas et al. (Chefalas) US 2002/0116639 A1 Aug. 22, 2002
(filed Feb. 21, 2001)
Claims 1 and 3-29 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 102 as being anticipated by
Chefalas.
Claim 2 stands rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 103 as being unpatentable over
Chefalas and Vaidya.
We refer to the Final Rejection (mailed Aug. 31, 2005) and the Examiner’s
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