Appeal 2007-0349
Application 09/862,355
identity attribute, an IP address or a client based log" (id.). Thus,
"[a]ccording to the Sitaraman et al. patent, a first time user in a group may
be count limited from a proxy session just because other members of the
group reached the group count limit" (Br. 7), whereas "Appellant's invention
can avoid this drawback of the Sitaraman system using a predetermined
threshold value that relates to a particular client process based on a source
identity associated with a client process, an IP address or a client process log
to limit the number of sessions between a server and a particular client
process, rather than limiting sessions within a given domain" (id.).
The Examiner finds (Answer 11) that the claimed "source identity
attribute associated with said client process" in claim 1 it taught by the
statement "[t]he local database contains a group identification such as a
domain identification corresponding to a group of users" (Sitaraman, col. 3,
ll. 21-23). The Examiner finds (id.) that the claimed "client process"
corresponds to a "user of CorpA" and the claimed "server process"
corresponds to a "proxy session," referring to column 5, lines 14-26. The
Examiner finds that Sitaraman describes a source identity attribute, an IP
address, or a client based log at column 1, line 59 through column 2, line 20,
and column 5, lines 28-35 (Answer 12-14).
Claims 1-8
Issue
The issue is whether determining whether to establish a new session
between a user and a proxy server based on a "group identification such as a
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