Appeal No. 2006-3330
Application No. 09/922,196
Claim 1 is illustrative of the claimed invention, and it reads as follows:
1. A method for automatically inputting user information to an electronic form provided to a
user computer from a server, comprising the acts of:
receiving the electronic form at the user computer, the electronic form requiring user
information to be input thereto;
retrieving user information from memory;
automatically inputting the user information to the electronic form;
updating the user information stored in the user computer in response to the user
manually inputting data to the form;
providing a menu of user names with each user name corresponding to a respective auto-
fill profile; and
allowing a user to select his or her name from the menu so that the autofill profile
corresponding to the selected name is used to provide information to the electronic form.
The references relied on by the examiner are:
Kikinis 5,794,259 Aug. 11, 1998
Pennell et al. (Pennell) 2002/0013788 Jan. 31, 2002
(filed May 18, 2001)
Claims 1 through 4, 9 through 12, 14 and 24 through 26 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C.
§ 102(e) as being anticipated by Pennell.
Claims 5 through 8, 13, 15, 16 and 27 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 103(a) as being
unpatentable over Pennell in view of Kikinis.
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