Appeal 2007-0145
Application 10/183,797
screen saver with password protection, a password is activated with the
screen saver and the user must enter a password before he or she can
reactivate and access the computer. The user sets the predetermined period
of time before the monitor is inactivated by the screen saver. Screen savers
with password protection were well known in Microsoft Windows systems
years before the filing date of this application. See Mark Reed, The word on
passwords, http://www.microsoft.com/ Windows98/ usingwindows/work/
articles/002Feb/password.asp (last updated Feb. 3, 2000) (downloaded
3/29/07) (copy attached).
The conventional screen saver clearly anticipates claims 1, 2, 5-11,
and 14-19, as interpreted. As noted in the above claim interpretation,
"inactivating the protected window" broadly means that the window is not
being worked in and does not preclude inactivating all the windows. The
Examiner should consider the admitted prior art in any further prosecution.
Rejection and arguments
The Examiner finds that Hale discloses a security system that is
automatically inactivated after a predetermined time interval activity, and
can include blanking the screen or displaying other data on the screen, but
fails to expressly disclose that a protected window is inactivated (Final
Rejection 3). The Examiner finds that Maddalozzo teaches a display system
where access periods are tracked within multiple windows having different
access periods (Final Rejection 3). The Examiner finds that "Maddalozzo
and Hale are similar in that they both activate a mechanism to deactivate the
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