Appeal 2006-2673 Application 10/004,192 STATEMENT OF CASE Appellant’s invention relates to Uniform Resource Locator (URL) filtering in which a plurality of URLs are stored in a lexical search tree data structure. Claim 1 is illustrative of the claimed subject matter and reads as follows: 1. A method for Uniform resource Locator (URL) filtering, comprising: receiving an event notification upon the occurrence of an event associated with a received URL; searching, in response to said event notification, a lexical search tree data structure storing a plurality of URLs for said received URL; and processing said received URL in response to said received URL not matching any of said plurality of URLs stored in said lexical search tree data structure. The prior art relied upon by the Examiner in rejecting the claims on appeal is: Humes US 5,996,011 Nov. 30, 1999 Meyerzon US 6,631,369 B1 Oct. 7, 2003 (filed Jun. 30, 1999) Claims 1, 10, and 11stand finally rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 102(e) as being anticipated by Humes. Claims 2-9 and 12-20 stand finally rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 103(a) as being unpatentable over Humes in view of Meyerzon. 2Page: Previous 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 Next
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