Ex Parte Katsukawa et al - Page 8

               Appeal 2007-0732                                                                             
               Application 09/799,502                                                                       

                      In other words, after the user is authenticated, the services                         
                      accessible to the user according to the user's profile are                            
                      presented to the user automatically.                                                  
               (Answer 5.)  The Appellants argue that "there is no such clear description                   
               that the user profile supplies information to the server applications 260 to                 
               enable access to those servers by the client applications."  (Reply Br. 4.)                  

                                         A. CLAIM CONSTRUCTION                                              
                      Claim 1 further recites in pertinent part the following limitations: "an              
               automatic log-in unit automatically making the user whose certification has                  
               been successfully performed by said certifying unit log-in to said application               
               server based on the data stored in the certification data storing unit."  Giving             
               the representative claim the broadest, reasonable construction, the                          
               limitations require using the stored data to log the user into the application.              
               Contrary to the Appellants' argument, the claim does not require forwarding                  
               the data to the server of the application.                                                   

                                        B. ANTICIPATION ANALYSIS                                            
                      As mentioned regarding the prior issue, a user of Navarre submits a                   
               user-id and password to the gateway 220.  The gateway compares the                           
               submission against stored sets of user-ids and passwords to determine                        
               whether the user is authorized to access one or more services of the                         
               application services offered by servers 230, 240, and 250.  "Once                            
               authentication is complete, the user profile is used to create a menu of the                 
               services accessible by the client for that session."  (Col. 4, ll. 53-55.)  When             
               the user selects an application service from the menu, the reference's system                

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