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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