Appeal 2007-1341
Application 09/894,065
to supply any piece of data as a grouping attribute.
The user of the grouping service can then ask for a
group to be created and receive the membership of
the group.
(Specification 10:25 to 12:5.)
Claim 1 is exemplary:
1. A method in a data processing system for
grouping based on attributes, the method
comprising:
maintaining a set of attributes relating to
elements in data processing systems, wherein a
desired combination of the attributes in a plurality
of possible combinations of the attributes is used to
create a respective group of elements containing
the respective desired combination of the
attributes;
upon receipt of a notification that a new
attribute can be searched, dynamically updating
the set of attributes;
receiving a query from a requestor wherein
the query includes criteria;
identifying a first group of devices, the
attributes of which match the criteria; and
returning the first group to the requestor.
The prior art relied upon by the Examiner in rejecting the claims on
appeal is:
McCormack US 6,295,527 B1 Sep. 25, 2001
(filed Feb. 13, 1998)
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