Appeal No. 2006-3120
Application No. 09/944,695
documents. The decrypted documents are then printed. Accordingly, security of
printing is enhanced since the documents remain encrypted at the printer, and
only the intended recipient can decrypt the documents prior to printing.
Representative claim 12 is reproduced as follows:
12. A method for secure communications to a network-connected printer,
the method comprising:
receiving documents spooled from a file server, encrypted
with a public key;
accepting a private key corresponding to the public key used
to encrypt the documents;
decrypting the documents with the private key; and,
printing the decrypted documents.
The examiner relies on the following references:
DeBry 6,385,728 May 7, 2002
(filed Nov. 26, 1997)
Mazzagatte et al. 6,862,583 Mar. 1, 2005
(Mazzagatte) (filed Oct. 4, 1999)
The following rejection is on appeal before us:
Claims 1-8, 10-25, and 27-35 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 103(a) as
being unpatentable over Mazzagatte in view of DeBry.
Rather than repeat the arguments of appellant or the examiner, we make
reference to the briefs and the answer for the respective details thereof.
OPINION
We have carefully considered the subject matter on appeal, the rejection
advanced by the examiner and the evidence of obviousness relied upon by the
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