Appeal 2007-1235
Application 09/748,125
The invention is directed to a computer-implemented process (claims
1 and 18), electronic commerce system (claim 19), and computer program
product (claim 20) for translating documents received from trading partners
in one format into another compliance-validated format to be sent to other
trading partners. Specification, p. 5, ll. 9-24. The translation process
includes capturing translation errors in a tracking database. Specification, p.
5, ll. 24-25. The translation process also includes extracting data from the
document being translated for use as an identifier in the tracking database.
The identifier is saved in the database as an index for the error data.
Specification, p. 5, ll. 25-28.
The claims are rejected as follows:
• Claims 1-2, 6-7, and 11-20 are rejected under 35 U.S.C. §103(a) as being
unpatentable over Ricker ("XML and EDI- Peaceful Co-Existence," 3
March 2000, available from www.archive.org) and further in view of
Puckett (US 5,572,670).
• Claim 3 is rejected under 35 U.S.C. §103(a) as being unpatentable over
Ricker and Puckett, and further in view of Dysart (US 6,708,166), and
further in view of Casper (US 5,526,484).
• Claim 4 is rejected under 35 U.S.C. §103(a) as being unpatentable over
Ricker, Puckett, Dysart, and Casper, and further in view of Dowling (US
6,157,988).
• Claims 5 is rejected under 35 U.S.C. §103(a) as being unpatentable over
Ricker and Puckett, and further in view of Casper.
• Claim 8 is rejected under 35 U.S.C. §103(a) as being unpatentable over
Ricker and Puckett, and further in view of Rusterholz et al. (US 4,945,479).
• Claim 9 is rejected under 35 U.S.C. §103(a) as being unpatentable over
Ricker and Puckett, and further in view of Loebig (US 5,406,563).
• Claim 10 is rejected under 35 U.S.C. §103(a) as being unpatentable over
Ricker, Puckett, Loebig, and further in view of Casper.
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