Appeal 2006-3369 Application 10/224,309 Group 1: Claims 1, 2, 6 – 17, 21 – 32, 36 – 45 including independent claims 1 (method of operation), 16 (apparatus), and 31 (article of manufacture). Group 2: Claims 3-5, 18 – 20, 33 - 35, dependent claims which include a scheduling feature. Claims 1 and 3 are illustrative of the claimed invention in each group: 1. In a computing environment, a method of operation comprising: receiving by the computing environment, a change of a person within an organization, the received change having employee information corresponding to the change of the person; storing by the computing environment, the received employee information corresponding to the change of the person in a database; updating by the computing environment, the database with the received employee information corresponding to the change of the person; and automatically providing by the computing environment, to the person, one or more policy materials for compliance certification, based at least in part on relevant parts of said updated employee information, to facilitate the organization’s compliance with the one or more policy materials. 3. The method operation of claim 1 further comprising: Determining by the computing environment, if the person has fully certified compliance with the provided one or more policy materials; and scheduling by the computing environment, one or more reminders for the person to certify compliance with the one or more policy materials. 2Page: Previous 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 Next
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