Broad original claims without format-dependent authentication

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#Broad original claims without format-dependent authentication

Mar 10, 2000030 Patent Application filed3/10/2000 application

Date: March 10, 2000#9Allowance of claim with format-dependent authenticationJun 13, 2005PTO allows claims with format-dependent authentication

3. Claim 2 is objected to as being dependent upon a rejected base claim, but would be allowable if rewritten in independent form including all of the limitations of the base claim and any intervening claims.

2005-06-13 Non-Final Rejection Page 2

#11Allowance of 030 format-dependent claimsJan 3, 2006PTO allows claims with format-dependent authentication.

v2. The allowed claim(s) is/are 1, 3, 8, 14, 15, 18-23, 30, 32, 35, 39, 42, 44-71 now renumbered as 1-44.

#12606 patent - allowance of claims due to format-dependent

The following is an Examiner's statement of reasons for allowance: Consider claims 1 and 19. The best prior art found during examination of the present application, fails to disclose, teach, or suggest a means for identifying said sender of said message as an authorized sender based on information associated with said message in comparison to data in the sender account.

8/6/09 Notice of Allowance for 606 patent (Nov. Decl. Ex. 24)

Aug 9, 2006 PTO allows similar format-dependent authentication claims in 606 patent#13Interview for remaining 3 patents format-dependentFeb 3, 2010 Interview on 247, 658 and 372 patent claims format-dependent authentication described by applicant as central feature in the reasons for allowance

D. Each independent claim now pending has the identification dependent upon the first format. This too was a central feature in the reasons for allowance.

#14Interview for remaining 3 patents format-dependentFeb 3, 5, and 25, 2010247, 658 and 372 patent claims allowed with reasons for allowance citing format-dependent authentication

However, the best prior art found during examination of the present application, fails to disclose, teach, or suggest either alone or in combination, identifying the sender of the message as an authorized sender based on information associated with the message in comparison to data in the sender account, wherein the identification is dependent upon the first format of a message from the sender.

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