Appeal 2007-0474
Application 10/692,885
1 STATEMENT OF THE CASE2
2 Appellants appeal under 35 U.S.C. § 134 from a Final Rejection
3 of claims 1-37 entered October 5, 2005. We have jurisdiction under
4 35 U.S.C. § 6(b).
5 Appellants invented a system and method for defining and controlling
6 personalized folders by end-users’ specified logic or preferences. End-users
7 can define conditions and actions that control the content of folders upon the
8 happening of an event. (Specification 5:23-25).
9 The appeal contains claims 1-37. Claims 1, 18 and 30 are
10 independent claims. As best representative of the disclosed and claimed
11 invention, claims 1 and 30 are reproduced below:
12 1. A system for organizing data, comprising:
13 a data storage component;
14 a plurality of folders comprising links to particular data files
15 stored in the data storage component, the content of the folders controlled at
16 least in part by end-user specified preferences, the folders include any type
17 of link collection defined by a set of relationships.
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19 30. A method of personalizing computers functionality,
20 comprising:
21 writing user preferences with respect to one or more named
22 groups of data in accordance with a developer schema;
23 executing user preferences in response to an event; and
24 taking action based on a conditionally valid preference.
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2 Throughout our opinion, we shall make references to Appellants’ Appeal
Brief (“Br.”) filed on March 6, 2006, and Reply Brief (“Reply Br.”) filed on
July 19, 2006, and to the Examiner’s Answer (“Answer”) mailed on May 19,
2006, for the respective details thereof.
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