Appeal 2007-0209
Application 10/021,621
H. Claims 41-54 are unpatentable under 35 U.S.C. §103(a) over Juha
Takkinen (CAFÉ: A Conceptual Model for Managing Information in
Electronic Mail) in view of Badt et al., (;US 6,542,868 B1) and Jonathan
Isaac Abu-Hakima (US 6,499,021 B1).
I. Claims 55-85 are unpatentable under 35 U.S.C. §103(a) over Jonathan
Isaac Abu-Hakima (US 6,499,021 B1) in view of Bady et al., (US 6,542,868
B1), Wright et al., (US 6,078,568 A), and Eggleston, et al. (US 6,101,531
A).
The Examiner relies on the following references:
Wright US 6,078,568 A Jun. 20, 2000
Eggleston US 6101531 A Aug. 8, 2000
Smith US 6463462 B1 Oct. 8, 2002
Abu-Hakima US 6499021 B1 Dec. 24, 2002
Badt US 6542868 B1 Apr. 1, 2003
Cooper US 6757362 A Jun. 29, 2004
Anderlind US 6781972 B1 Aug. 24, 2004
Helfman, “Ishmail: Immediate Identification of Important Information,”
(1995).
Marx, “CLUES: Dynamic Personalized Message Filtering,” 113-121 (1996).
Losee, “Minimizing Information Overload: The Ranking of Electronic
Messages.” Journal of Information Sciences 15, 179-189, (1989).
Independent claims 1 and 23 are illustrative and representative of the
Appellants’ invention. They read as follows:
1. A user interface to manage electronic messages, comprising:
3
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