Appeal 2007-0352
Application 09/996,130
figure 2 of Herz do utilize corresponding mass storage (disk) devices SS
associated with the servers.
In context of the concept of pre-caching just noted, the artisan would
well appreciate that the alleged deficiency from the Examiner’s point of
view is actually taught in Herz. This consideration is buttressed by
Appellants’ own recognition of the prior art at Specification page 1 that such
corresponding disk drive or disk arrays are utilized in a caching environment
to reduce access and download times as noted earlier. Indeed, the Examiner
has readily pointed out that the teaching value of Herz’s approach is to
enable “a user to access information of relevance and interest to the user
without requiring the user to expend an excessive amount of time and
energy” as expressed at column 4, lines 28 through 32 of Herz.
To buttress the Examiner analysis of Herz, we note the direct
pertinence of the Abstract of this reference as well as the lengthy Summary
in this reference at columns 4 through 8 under the caption “SOLUTION”.
Even this portion of Herz contravenes Appellants’ assertion that Herz
merely discloses that attributes for a single user are maintained as expressed
at the bottom of page 9 of the Brief. The reference plainly teaches not only
this capability but the ability to generate target profiles for each target
object, to generate user interest feedback from a user, to construct a target
profile interest summary for each user and then to process the respective
profiles in such a manner to arrive at group relationships best characterized
by the discussion in the paragraph at the middle of column 8 of this
reference which teaches the construction of virtual communities of people
with common interests based upon these profiles. This Virtual Community
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