Appeal No. 2006-2936
Application No. 10/013,714
setting property level access to specify which users can access
which piece of information in the database. Britton also teaches an
access control list (ACL) indicating which levels in the database
each user is allowed to access. The ACL restricts access to a
particular level in the database only to users that have acquired
the necessary security level permission to access such level of
data.
It is our view that one of ordinary skill in the art at the
time of the present invention would have readily found that
Britton’s teachings amount to the Appellant’s invention as set
forth in representative claim 1. The ordinarily skilled artisan
would have duly recognized that every time a user or a program
submits a request to access a level of data in the database, such
request is routed to the database via an interface program, which
subsequently accesses the database. From the point of view of
the database, whether the request is submitted by an actual user
or a program, such request can only access the database via the
interface program. Hence, from the database standpoint, the
interface program, which serves as a proxy for the user or the
program can only access a particular level of the database if the
identification data provided by the interface program has already
been granted the necessary permission to access such level,
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