Appeal 2007-1417
Application 09/877,536
FINDINGS OF FACT
The record supports the following findings of fact (FF) by a
preponderance of the evidence.
1. The P3P Note teaches that the Platform for Privacy Preferences (P3P)
is designed to help users reach agreements with services, i.e., Web
sites and applications that declare privacy practices and make data
requests. (Page 3.) As the first step in reaching an agreement, the
service sends a privacy proposal that declares its privacy practices.
(Page 3.) Figure 1 provides an example of a privacy proposal in both
English and P3P syntax. (Pages 3, 5-6.)
2. The P3P Note describes data elements and teaches that the P3P
defines a base set of commonly requested data elements. (Pages 4, 9.)
The P3P Note also describes categories of data elements and teaches
that a "service can use a standard set of categories defined in the
harmonized vocabulary to describe the type of information to be
collected." (Page 9, see also pages 16-17.) In addition, the P3P Note
teaches that "[b]ecause many services are likely to want to collect
information not contained in the base set, P3P includes a mechanism
for services to declare their own sets of data elements and to request
that users add them to their repositories." (Page 10.)
3. Curbow describes a system for determining whether material added to
a document should be incorporated into the document contents or
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