Appeal 2007-1317
Application 09/731,623
services. The selected account management services may be of
the same type, or from various types. The service associations
form a decision table [see TABLE 1, col. 7] used by the
pluggable account management interface 123 to determine
which account management service is to be used [to] provide
account management functionality in response to the use of a
particular system entry service 107.
(Wu, col. 7, ll. 5-14; see also TABLE 1, col. 7].
Therefore, we agree with Appellants that Wu’s preexisting, stored
service associations (i.e., authentication services) are not fairly generated
(i.e., created) as a second security context in response to a second user
authentication, wherein said second security context is an aggregate of said
first security context and a security context corresponding to an identity in
said second user authentication, as required by the language of independent
claim 1.
With respect to Appellants’ teaching away argument, we agree that
Wu’s primary purpose of providing a unified single user login does teach
away from any requirement that a second user authentication be performed
by a human user (see Wu, col. 3, ll. 14-17). At the same time, we agree with
the Examiner that a broad but reasonable interpretation of the claim
language does not require the user authentication to be performed by an
actual human user, as discussed supra .
However, we find Appellants’ arguments persuasive with respect to
the issue of hindsight. The Examiner asserts that the nature of the problem
to be solved would have led an artisan, having knowledge of Savill, to look
to Wu to solve the purported deficiencies of Savill (see Answer 9-10). The
problem or deficiency that the Examiner raises is the need to avoid logging
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