Appeal 2007-0145
Application 10/183,797
Appellants that the term "window" in the claims requires a windows
operating system, although not a specific windows operating system such as
Microsoft Windows. Hale does not disclose a windows operating system
and does not disclose "inactivating the protected window," as found by the
Examiner. Nevertheless, we agree with the Examiner's finding (Answer 20)
that Hale provides security no matter what operating system is used.
The Examiner applies Maddalozzo for its teaching of individual
windows with different access periods and controlling the appearance of the
windows separately. Maddalozzo discloses that the "[o]perating system 41
may be one of the commercially available windows type of operating
systems" (col. 3, ll. 14-16). Maddalozzo discloses that the windows can
represent access to secured databases which grant access for limited time
periods (col. 4, ll. 18-23) and the borders of the windows change colors to
indicate that the time period of access is expiring (col. 4, l. 61, to col. 5,
l. 16). It is the time period of access to the secured database that is
monitored, not the period of inactivity of the window, and it is the access to
the database that expires, or becomes inactivated, not the windows
themselves. Thus, Maddalozzo also does not disclose "inactivating the
protected window."
Neither Hale nor Maddalozzo discloses "inactivating the protected
window." The Examiner concludes that it would have been obvious "to
modify the system of Hale to incorporate the individual session or window
control as taught by Maddalozzo, in order to obtain a system that is able to
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