Appeal No. 2007-0695 Page 2
Application No. 09/837,041
Our review of the record leads us to conclude that this appeal is not in a
condition for a decision. Pursuant to 37 C.F.R. § 41.50(a)(1), we remand the
application to the Examiner for further explanation of the rejection.
The invention is directed to a system for processing eCommerce requests
from an original format to a transformed format. The system employs an
application configured to process the request in the transformed format by
receiving the request in the original format and mapping it to the transformed
format. The system includes a specification document configured to produce
metadata defining a relationship between request data in the original format and
the transformed format. The system further includes a flow manager configured to
use the metadata to map the request in the original format to the request in the
transformed format and to call the application configured to process the request in
the transformed format. Specification, p. 4.
Claims 1, 3, 4, and 8-12 are finally rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 102(e) as
being anticipated by Meltzer (U.S. Patent No. 6,125,391).
Claim 1 reads as follows:
1. A system for handling eCommerce requests, comprising:
(a) at least one application configured to process a request in a
transformed format, wherein the request is received from one of a plurality
of requesting entities in an original format and mapped to the transformed
format;
(b) at least one specification document configured to produce
metadata defining a relationship between data of the request in the original
format and data of the request in the transformed format, wherein the
metadata comprises a plurality of metadata instances each configured to
support a different request protocol; and
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