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                 Appeal 2007-2167                                                                                        
                 Application 09/991,752                                                                                  

                 sites to automatically fill in order forms and then to purchase these items                             
                 without having to browse and interact with different sites (col. 2, ll. 60-63).                         
                        2. Gupta ‘079 shows in Figure 1C a transaction integrator 100                                    
                 which processes information in conjunction with one or more wrapper                                     
                 programs 140, 150 and 160 configured to specific merchandising sites 139,                               
                 149 and 159 while a User Meta-database 170 and User Selection database                                  
                 180 are used for filling in of online forms presented by various shopping                               
                 sites (col. 6, ll. 11-22).  Transaction integrator 100 controls responding to the                       
                 user's requests to search for various merchandise, obtaining information                                
                 from the user about the user's merchandise selections from the search results                           
                 and building information into the User Meta-database 170 and the User                                   
                 Selection database 180 (col. 6, ll. 22-27).                                                             
                 3. As depicted in Figure 1D, Gupta ‘079 further discloses a                                             
                 plurality of relationships between data objects in the User Meta-database                               
                 170 (col. 6, ll. 28-29), which is described as being unique to each user and                            
                 comprises a first property, “first-name,” and a second property, “last-name”                            
                 (col. 6, ll. 42-44).  Gupta ‘079 further discloses that relationship 90 of the                          
                 plurality of relationships associates a User ID 92 with a form ID 94, and a                             
                 plurality of property-value tuples 96, 98 and 99 (col. 6, ll. 52-54).                                   
                        4.   Gupta ‘079 describes automatically filling forms associated                                 
                 with a vendor’s site corresponding to product selections made by a user with                            
                 the information stored in User Meta-database 170 and User Selection                                     
                 database 180, such as the name, credit card number, and address of a user,                              
                 using relationships 60, 70, 80 and 90 depicted in FIG. 1D (col. 8, ll. 15-20).                          



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