Appeal 2007-0645
Application 10/242,898
1 INVENTION
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3 The invention is directed to a document exchange system in which security
4 is integral to the system. See pages 3 and 4 of Appellants’ Specification. Claim 1
5 is representative of the invention and reproduced below:
6 1. A document exchange environment for allowing a user to access
7 documents, the document exchange environment comprising:
8 a web server;
9 a document vault database coupled to the web server, the document
10 vault database storing information regarding whether a user is
11 authorized to access a document file;
12 a file server coupled to the web server, the file server providing a user
13 access to the document file via the web server based upon the
14 information regarding whether the user is authorized to access
15 the document file.
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17 REFERENCES
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19 The references relied upon by the Examiner are:
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21 Prompt US 2001/0034733 A1 Oct. 25, 2001
22 (filed Mar. 02, 2001)
23 Sitka US 6,330,572 B1 Dec. 11, 2001
24 (effectively filed Jul. 15, 1998)
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26 REJECTION AT ISSUE
27 Claims 1 through 241 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 103(a) as
28 unpatentable over Prompt and Sitka. The Examiner’s rejection is set forth on
1 We note that the statement of the rejection identifies claims 1-17 as being
rejected, but the reasoning in support of the rejection also addresses claims 18
through 24. Appellants’ arguments similarly address the rejection as applied to
claims 1 through 24. Accordingly, we consider the Examiner’s rejection on appeal
to apply to claims 1 through 24.
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